Talker - History of talkers

Talker - Intranet talkers. The first talker in history appeared in 1984. Talkers at this period of time were hosted on an intranet within a school or office or local bulletin board systems that people used to connect to the internet. An early example of an intranet talker was UNaXcess, which was created in 1984. Talker - Early internet talkersSee also:

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Talker - Divisions between talkers. Talkers can be divided quite succinctly between two groups - ew-too-style talkers and NUTS-style talkers. Spods, as ew-too-style users were called, would almost never go to a NUTS talker, and vice versa. Beyond this simple division, there was a second division. All-ages users would never go to an adults only talker, and vice versa. However, adults-only talkers were almost exclusively NUTS-style, which meant that there were only 3 major divisions. Multiple worlds talkers however ...

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Ew-too style talkers, which are originally based on LPMud have code that is very easy to use for people who are used to MUDs, and hence attracts many MUD users who are used to the interface. Regular ew-too users are sometimes referred to as spods, a term that is unfamiliar with NUTS users. Ew-too users were very unlikely to ever go to a NUTS talker, because the interface is so very different. Ew-too talkers were almost exclusively all ages. Ew-too users were more likely to go to a MUD or a MUSH than to go to a NUTS ...

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With the introduction of lintilla in 1994, and its split off of Sleepy's multiple worlds in 1995, adult talkers became increasingly common. Because these 2 pioneering adult talkers used NUTS, hence the vast majority of subsequent adult talkers also used NUTS-style codes. Much as how ew-too users rarely visited NUTS talkers, similarly NUTS users who used adult (18+) talkers rarely visited all ages talkers. They were communities within their own community. Indeed, there were further splits within different interest groups, including the follow ...

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Some talkers linked together with each other, to form a "multiple worlds" talker. The first of these, lintilla (1994), used the same code in every world, while later versions including planes of existence (1996) and Worlds of Syrius (1996) had almost entirely unique code in each world. Multiple Worlds talkers allowed a user to go to a talker with their desired theme, type of interest, and users, whilst still maintaining the same account. Multiple Worlds talkers allowed users to still log in to all of their worlds at the same time, through different windows. A user could feasibly send an e-mail f ...

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Each talker had different commands available, but a typical list is as follows: say - talks to the room shout - talks to the entire talker tell - privately talks to another user - similar to IRC/instant messenger "private message"/pm emote - makes an action (for example, assuming your username was 'Jack', "emote smiles at you" would appear as "Jack smiles at you") move/go/translocate - moves to another room - on some talkers this could go from any room to any other room, while on others you we ...

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There are many other types of chat program that are sometimes referred to as "talkers", which are also historically based on MUDs. These originated from TinyMUD in 1989. The most common of these are: Talker - MUSH. A MUSH is A Multi-User Shared Habitat, Holodeck, or Hallucination, a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time. MUSHes are often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games. Examples: PernMUSH Star Wars MUSH Cajun Nights ...

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NUTS-style talkers generally had completely different users to ew-too style talkers. People who used ew-too loved them and refused to use anything else, and similarly those who were used to the simpler commands of NUTS, and the "dotty" elements, loved NUTS. Whilst ew-too users were known as spods, NUTS users were not. In spite of the vast majority of adult (18+) talkers being NUTS-style or "dotty" talkers, the vast majority of NUTS talkers were all ages. Neil Robertson, the creator of NUTS, does not list a single adult (18+) talker in his family tree of talk ...

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The first internet talker, Cat Chat, created in 1990, was based on LPMud code, used for MUDs. This code eventually developed in to Elsewhere code, which then developed in to Elsewhere Too or ew-too code. One of the early intranet talkers, UNaXcess, which was created in 1984, had a code base that was eventually used as a basis for Neil Robertson's own version, NUTS in 1993, which was immediately available for public download. One of the major forks of NUTS 1 was Iforms, which in turn was used to create Ncohafmuta, which formed part of the inspiration for the major NUTS fork Amnuts. NUTS 3 led to the creation of Amnuts as ...

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Most talkers had 3 basic levels - USER, WIZ and GOD (or SU). On some talkers, they required for you to register before promoting you to user, and also had lower levels for punishment purposes. Some also had higher levels of users for long-term users or users who had been voted on to a user council (such as Crystal Palace). A handful of places had several different levels of wizard as well. ...

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Traditionally, the only way to connect to a talker is by using telnet. Some talkers allow connections via SSL, but this is quite rare. Originally, the most common way users connected to talkers was by using raw telnet clients (see below) or by using various MUD clients, which were developed to be used on MUDs. However, as talkers developed, a number of clients were developed that were specifically tailored for use with talkers. While MUD clients primarily focused on triggers, scripts, speedwalks, macros and other tools i ...

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Whilst talker bases had a variety of names for their codes, there were essentially only 2 base codes from which all other codes were based, this being NUTS (also known as "dotty" because of its use of a . before each command) and ew-too. The main difference between ew-too and NUTS is that ew-too required for you to type in "say hello there" while with NUTS you could type in "hello there" without a command. NUTS also required a . before each command, while ew-too did not. For example, in ew-too code you would type "tell jack what's up? ...

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Each talker had different commands available, but a typical list is as follows: say - talks to the room shout - talks to the entire talker tell - privately talks to another user - similar to IRC/instant messenger "private message"/pm emote - makes an action (for example "emote smiles at you" would appear as "Jack smiles at you") move/go/translocate - moves to another room - on some talkers this could go from any room to any other room, while on others you were required to follow a map

Historically, talkers pre-date the World Wide Web and hence the main form of advertisement was word of mouth, although newsgroups were sometimes used to advertise. From 1994 onwards, however, and with the prevalence of free web page hosting companies such as Geocities, an increasing number of Talker Lists were created by individual users. The talker lists would usually aim to be a comprehensive list of all talkers, and thus any person who was interested in talkers would be directed there. Some official sites such as http://www.ewtoo.org/ als ...

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Talker - UNaXcess. UNaXcess is a bulletin board system originally started at Bradford University by Brandon S Allbery in 1984. During the early 90's it moved to the University of Manchester and was used for several years, mostly by members of the Computer Science department. Around about 1998, work started on a re-write of the code base overhaul the current system whilst keeping the quirky aspects that many users had grown to know and love (such as pressing 'G' to quit). By September 1999, the ...

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