I remember MUD... I have Legends of Infocom (Zork ftw) on my iPad and still maintain a subscription to a text-based game called Dragonrealms... I'm probably a dinosaur too in that case. Unfortunately I've even seen in in that text-based game where people just run scripts now to get to the highest level possible and taunt you for not having the best stuff. Everything is keeping up with the Joneses these days...