Welcome to aGe oF iNsaNitY! If you are new to mudding in general the following links should help you adjust to a gaming world which existed since the internet started. Long before graphical interfaces, muds were a way of life for many of the first internet users.
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To connect to this mud, use a telnet client (within your windows or linux command prompt):
telnet ageofinsanity.org 4000
(the protocol is “telnet” and the server is “ageofinsanity.org” and the port number is “4000”)
But there are better mud clients available: