MIST (MUD)
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Michael Lawrie
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| Born |
17 April 1968 Lytham St Annes Lancashire, England |
| Residence | Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | Lorry |
Michael Lawrie (born 17 April 1968 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England) is a British computer security and social networking expert known for many things ranging from running MUDs to accidentally being the world's first Cybersquatter. He lives in Cambridge, England where he created and runs the Cambridge Freecycle group, one of the largest in Europe.
While at the University of Leeds, he took over management of MUD1 at Essex University in 1987. MUD1 was the first online role playing world, played by text through X.25/PSS and later Telnet.
After its shutdown he carried on running MIST, another early virtual world, until he closed that down in 1991. Famous then simply as Lorry, he wrote the seminal guide for MUD management "Confessions of an Arch-Wizard". Years later he wrote a few updates to this explaining how it all worked in practice.
In 1988 he took over the AberMUD project for a year, running a standard distribution of the game at Southampton University, Leeds University and the IBM PC Users Group. He also managed a VAX based mud at St David's University College, Lampeter. Lawrie was the first person to send out the AberMUD source code to Vijay Subramaniam thus starting the proliferation of MUDs throughout the world.
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