(As most of the content of this history is from Sauron's addled
memory (and WAY too long tiny.world file), any errors are likely
his fault. Many thanks to Lukthil for originally taking the time
to assemble Sauron's notes into a cohesive form, upon which this
document is based.) The founding of ElendorMUSH was most
immediately a consequence of the demise of another game,
TinyWorld (which itself was a split from TinyTIM - see their
history at http://www.tim.org/history/). In late 1991,
administrators at the University of Northern Iowa noticed an
uncommonly large (read: more than zero) number of connections
from their student servers to port 6250 on a .gov site -- the
then under-construction Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) --
and contacted the facility to alert them to the situation. As a
direct result, TinyWorld was permanently shut down, and refugees
from that game collected on another MUSH, now long gone, named
"Visions". It was there that future Elendorites Varda, Manwe,
Radagast, and Sauron met one ano