From Vault Wiki Mmorpg, a term coined by Richard Garriott who
created Ultima Online and is credited with popularizing the
massive multiplayer genre in the late 1990's. 1961:The First
Network PLATO, 'Programmed Logic Automatic Teaching Operations'
is the first functional network, running on the ILLIAC computer
system The first patent for a two player video game is filed,
the idea conceptualized by Ralph Baer in 1966, this is the game
'Odyssey'. The beginning of the mmorpg genre can be traced back
to the earliest multi-user graphical game 'Mazewar' (also known
as The Maze Game, Maze Wars, Maze War, or Maze), which ran off
the Plato system with capabilities of supporting up to 8 players
in game at a time. An extraordinary leap in the right direction
and set off the craze for multi-user games and long distance
computing. Features that Mazewar created that are still in
common use today include: - First person view; Players saw the
playing field as if they themselves were walking around in it,
with the maze walls r