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SoNet
- noun The incarnation of
MUD2 which ran on the SoNet network from
1993 to 1997.
Historical note: SoNet was an Internet service
provider, and one of its leading lights,
Chris Cain, was a former MUD1 player
(as well as being a well-respected computer games
journalist).
He asked to put MUD2 on the system, and a
small community rapidly developed (never quite getting big enough to be
major, but nevertheless full of vitality). When the time came to
charge, though, the business model for SoNet had changed,
and they had a problem of how to pay MUSE any royalties. The
eventual solution was to close down SoNet's site and move
all the players over to Dragon, which made the latter
a powerful force. Perhaps too powerful: it wasn't long
afterwards that Interplay began its play for exclusivity.
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