History and Trivia

Timeline

1993

Greg Hudson creates ColdMUD as a project at MIT, using ideas from Stephan White's MOO and CoolMUD with influences from other areas as well. His primary purpose is to focus upon creating an optimal object-oriented database system. C-- is created as the language to use within the database, the name is later changed by Brandon Gillespie to ColdC, due to another language already named C--.

3-Jun-1993

ColdMUD 0.1 is released by Greg Hudson.

Aug-1993

DarkurtheMOO, administrated by Richelieu (Alex Stewart), Tesseract, Lynx and a few others decide to switch to Cold after Crag (Robert de Forest) introduces them to ColdMUD. The Cold Dark is created.

3-Jan-1994

Various other versions of ColdMUD have been released up to this time, finalizing with Greg Hudson's last official release of ColdMUD version 0.10.

Greg's remaining work became version 0.11 and was given to Jordan Baker who added patches for bug fixes that had been passed around in addition to his work, which included cooperative multitasking through the use of suspend()/resume() and pause().

Nov-1994

Brandon Gillespie and Alex Stewart take the source and begin designs for further development. A configuration script is added, and some more bugs are fixed.

First Cold Dark Core release. Bug fixes soon follow. This core is an emphasized alpha release for others to use as a modern core (the Cold Dark is the only core which is up to date with the driver changes).

Jan-1995

The language ColdC is defined seperate from any driver by Brandon Gillespie. The Cold Project is formed to manage the ColdC language and further development of the driver (using the ColdMUD base, later renamed to Genesis).

Mar-1995

Second Cold Dark Core release.

17-Apr-1996

Genesis 1.0 is released.

?-?-1997

Genesis 1.1-STABLE is released, this is the first publicly stable release of any ColdC server.

Trivia

Why "Genesis"

Because of the evolutionary changes occuring to the source base the driver was named genesis. It was later found that this name conflicted with the original LPMUD server of the same name. Since (in our case) the name was specific to the driver we felt the conflict was not great enough to warrant a change. Work in regard to ColdC in general is simply referred to as 'Cold' or 'ColdStuff'.