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Wow neat! LambdaMOO was such an influential thing for. MUDs in general had a lot of influence, both in social media and gaming. And then LambdaMOO had the specific brief of being a social media experiment. Neat to see the tech reborn!

Pavel Curtis is still out there, LinkedIn says he recently left his job at Microsoft after 20 years. He also runs a puzzle shop: http://www.pavelspuzzles.com/site/

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I talked to Pavel about taking a role in my team earlier this year (I ended up leaving Microsoft myself since). He was passionate about making the developer experience excellent - code quality, clean APIs, etc. Thats a tall order for some parts of Microsoft with 30+-year old codebases. He mentioned he was interested in rockets so I hope he found a gig doing that.

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