MOOs

MOO is an acronym which stands for MUD Object Oriented. And MUD is also an acronym which stands for Multiple User Domain. MUDs which are point of origin of MOO technology are systems originally invented for games like Dungeons and Dragons. However the potential of MUD for facilitating on line live meetings soon inspired the more serious offspring the MOO. Very little is written on MOOs, the existing books on the internet are almost universally silent on this new technological resourse. The best existing article to date on educational and recreational MOOs is David Bennahum's "Fly Me to the MOO: Adventures in Textual Reality" in Lingua Franca (4:4, May/June 1994). Bennahum lists several MOOs and explores a number of educational uses of the new medium.