alt Hacker NewsThe Yoink used in the end was a word/action I first came across in Ultima Online when players would yoink steal an item from another players backpack.
Curious if that’s coincidence or if players of UO brought that over most likely from MUDs.
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axus • yesterday at 7:08 PM
I don't know him, but Raph Koster (and Richard Garriot) definitely played a few MUDs.
EverQuest and Ultima Online had a huge overlap with MUDs of their time. Both in terms of developer experience (parts of EverQuest allegedly came about by starting from a Diku MUD codebase; several UO designers such as Raph Koster had been MUD devs and/or "wizards"/admins) and also player experience (many of the earliest players and their vocabulary coming from MUDs of the day and/or playing both).