I didn't read this article (yet anyway) but unless it's mentioned in their, I remember enjoying the fact that EQ had some mud-like commands from the gate. Turns out, this was because one of the main designers was a coder from the circlemud style TORILmud (later derivatives becoming Homelandmud, sojournmud, and I'd like to think duris and basternae).

What I didn't like from the original EQ was its tedium... that's how it was in Torilmud, RP and PvE only and most of the real content simply being end-game. But at least it retained some commands like /who and /where... etc etc.

No real point to the post, other than pointing out the dots that can be connected.