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Diversity University was created in summer 1993 by its founder (and original "arch-wizard"), Jeanne McWhorter. Diversity University was the first MOO dedicated specifically for education. Like other MUDs, it was an online realm that allowed people to interact in real time by connecting to a central server, assuming a virtual identity within that realm, "teleporting" (in other words, transporting your character) or "walking" to virtual rooms, and holding text-based conversations with others who had entered the same virtual room.
Diversity University was one of the earliest educational virtual worlds, using MOO technology to create collaborative learning environments. It influenced the development of online classrooms, virtual campuses, and distance‑learning pedagogy. Its experiments in roleplay‑based education informed later platforms like Edorble and OpenSim‑based schools. It demonstrated that virtual worlds could support serious academic collaboration.
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