in all these years never really tried MUD's properly

I remember looking at a MUD via telnet in the early 90s, but I gave up after half an hour of endless questions about creating a profile and character in the game. I didn't yet know enough about the game to answer most of those questions! ... I gave up after half an hour of those questions so didn't manage find out what its like to play the game.

(I presume its a lot more fun than the frustrating profile questions that went on and on and on... maybe providing some easy preset profiles for newbies to choose might have helped)

don't know where to find those nowdays