The Mud Connector

The Mud Connector, abbreviated TMC, is a computer gaming website that provides articles, discussions, reviews, resource links and game listings about MUDs.

[2][3] The site contains over 1000 MUD listings[4] and designates a subset of virtual communities suitable for children.

[7][8] The Mud Connector website was founded on January 8, 1995, by Andrew Cowan and was hosted on the University of North Carolina at Greensboro mathematics department graduate assistants' Linux server.

[9] Shortly after the website was created it was believed lost due to a fatal hard disk crash and poor backup preparations, but within a few months the webpage was found in a Netscape cache file and restored.

Over time the Usenet postings were phased out and TMC outgrew the capabilities of its host, eventually moving to a dedicated server.