In the early eighties, some people made an adventure game that people could play together, using networked computers. A MOO is a kind of MUD that uses an object-oriented programming language. You don't need to know what that means to find MOOs enjoyable or useful. LambdaMOO is a social MOO, where people chat and play and build and program odd objects. As the Internet became more and more accessible, especially in universities, people started to use MOOs for education as well as for fun.
Today there are many educational MOOs, which are used both in on-campus and distance education.
You might like to have a look at the two other MOOs we as well, Dreistadt for German learners, and Moolin Rouge for French. General MOO resources and links to research papers are available at The Lost Library of MOO . If you read Norwegian, you can find out a lot more about MOOs and about this and our other projects at lingo.uib's web site .