Newsweek, August 1, 1994 issue, page 10, : 'All disney, all the time'
"Delighted by Simba's advent? Worried about Michael Eisner's health?
Ready to role-play as a 'toon? You're not alone. In rec.arts.disney, a very
popular Usenet group, there are more than 200 threads waiting for you to
pull. Lurkers can head straight for the FDC(Future Disney Cabinet) postings.
This role-playing exchange can be charming--imagine Tinker Bell talking back
to a studio exec, or the cast members of "The Lion King" acting out their
roles--but recently a few characters took over a branch of MIT's Wacko MUD,
or Multi User Dungeon, and were reprimanded by the school. For a look, telnet
to red-branch.mit.edu 6003. Once inside, check out Never-Land and Palace
Atlantica from "The Little Mermaid."
Okay, what a confused sentence. It is barely correct. The actual sentence
should read: ---but recently around 50 characters built a lot of stuff on
Wacko, and were griped at by ch'od.
The source was a r.a.d person who was being interviewed. Said person also
happened to mention Wacko, and it got put in the article. it was an accident.
In total, we got: roughly 200 new guests, but only 30-40 new characters or
so. much less than we had expected. Not a big deal at all.