mudhead

plural mudheads · alternative MUDhead

1. rareslangcomputingA dedicated participant in multi-user dungeons.

   […] true mudheads sometimes spent so much time at it that they lost jobs, alienated friends, and failed to obtain academic degrees in the quest to attain wizard status.

   1997, Stuart Berg Flexner, Anne H. Soukhanov, Speaking Freely, page 72

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   “Is anybody still playing it now? On the Internet, I mean.” “I doubt it. Real MUDheads were so offended by it that they sabotaged the games and spammed the players […]

   2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere, page 104

plural MUDheads

1. Alternative letter-case form of mudhead.

   “Is anybody still playing it now? On the Internet, I mean.” “I doubt it. Real MUDheads were so offended by it that they sabotaged the games and spammed the players […]

   2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere, page 104

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   I'll admit I USED to be a serious MUDhead. The fact is, I saw my grades and reformed myself. MUD's^([sic]) were addictive for me because they were such an incredibly different thing from what I'd ever seen before.

   1992 November 11, N Allen Cheesman, “Mud Research”, in alt.mud (Usenet)

   The ban was by AARNET, the Australian Uni net, to discourage students from wasting their bandwidth. Fortunately, the demand for non-edu internet access got so huge that AARNET set up a commercial arm to supply internet access to us very unacademic MUDheads.

   1994 October 7, Dorian Dowse, “Australian MU* ban: Still in effect?”, in rec.games.mud.misc (Usenet)