Why MUD's Are Important Network-based virtual realities are now coming of age, largely populated by students seeking an enriched environment for exploration, discovery, and creative expression.
Virtual communities emerge with imaginative interactive adventures and puzzles.
The science content of such worlds can profitably be enriched by the active participation of the education community. MUD's are the ultimate virtual space. Some are dynamically extensible. MUD's constitute a completely virtual space, but one that exists almost entirely in each user's mind. A MUD may take place in a house, park, underground complex, forest, or other area, and include realistic attributes like doorways, running water, objects to be carried around, and other characters, all of which are virtual, and exist entirely in your imagination.