A TinyMUD server was originally written by James Aspnes inside mid-to-late 1989. He announced a handiness of the 1st TinyMUD in August 19, 1989; seven months late, in April 29, 1990, he announced TinyMUD's closure (due to a process size exceeding the memory restrict on the hikers patterns). Humans world health organization own been "mudding" day and night since those days are known as "dinosaurs" or even "dinos."

Aspnes freed a code to TinyMUD -- which he it used to be that described as "a weekend hack that got out of control" -- resultant within late non-Aspnes versions; in addition, others extended & modified it into such variants when TinyMUSH (written by Larry Foard), TinyMUCK, TinyMUX, & TinyMUSE. MUCK & MUSH come currently said to could have for "Multi-User Created Kingdom" & "Multi-User Shared Hallucination", however which are actually backronyms; originally they were elementary plays on the notion of "mud." More MUD servers like UberMUD, UnterMUD, TeenyMUD & MOO were written by TinyMUD participants however are non directly from either a TinyMUD code.

When early when a original rerun of TinyMUD Classic, more MUDs using the TinyMUD server began emerging; since so, literally hundreds of MUDs according to TinyMUD & its derivatives own existed.