Just a random article that I found lurking on the web. This is just so true:

"In <1992Mar21.023720.4152@acsu.buffalo.edu> leet@acsu.buffalo.edu (Brian D. Leet) writes:

"Older muds" are more "enjoyable" for the simple reason that the most
chattering bunch on the net these days started playing sometime back
then (in the "good ol' days"). When you're ignorant of the coding ways
of the muds, you view everything as "magical", thus more enjoyable and
entertaining (IMHO

I can still remember the first mud I logged on and a wiz popped into the
room. The rush that I got from watching him cloning items (not in those
specific terms of course can never be forgotten. When you know how
the codings work, the "magic" is then all gone.

-michael
Vincent's Hollow"

Which reminds me when Arolin related his very first experience on CF and it goes a little something like this:

"In '95 I created a character called Blacksloth and I ended up in some realm of the dead and kept getting hit by lightning". The lightning, of course, was him being smited and not knowing what the hell was going on

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein