Participants in the MOO create characters, which they use primarily to communicate with other characters. A MOO also contains rooms, which the characters can walk between, and objects, which the characters can manipulate. When using a MOO, a user types commands that either communicate with other users, or perform actions. The results of these commands are displayed on the screens of all participants who can see the results. Mostly, the experimentation is secondary to socialization, however.
Participants spend the majority of their active time communicating with the other participants.
This page was created by Mathew Corthell for the course Computers and Society in the fall of 1999 at Northeastern University .