A resurrected online role-playing world from the golden age of MUDs: part fantasy adventure, part social chaos, part living museum of beautifully unhinged 90s internet culture.
Explore our world
Walk through Lucidity and beyond with prose, commands and imagination doing the heavy lifting — now supported by a richer browser interface.
Choose a path
Become a fighter, mage, cleric, ninja, rogue, druid or witch, each with its own skills, spells and strange little rituals.
Join the resurrection
Insomnia is being rebuilt live on modern FluffOS: old code restored, new systems added, and the soul database preserved for future generations.
Insomnia MUD was first published sometime in late 1993. Hard to be specific, many things were blurry back then.
Two renegade players known as Vx and Mork who met on Elephant MUD, downloaded an early version of MudOS and a release of the then Nightmare Mudlib — a kind of default game to build upon — and put Insomnia up as their own online game.
What started out as a bit of a joke, got quite popular over the years — at one point there was a good sized regular player community, and many fun mudmeet’s (drinking sessions) occurred in London in the late 90s.
Many years have passed. MudOS is literally no more. Computing has moved to the cloud. Nobody plays MUDs anymore.
Yet, in a moment of boredom and piqued curiosity, Insomnia has been reborn using a modern FluffOS driver to replace MudOS, and the one viable copy of Nightmare Mudlib — 3.3, the worst — that could be found.
That, a quick instance fired up on AWS, and already many hours of recreating original genius…
Much is broken. Much is already fixed. Help is needed. If you would like to help, email us or log on to the MUD and shout for either Mork or Vx. If only to preserve our infamous soul database for future generations, or just for kicks — all welcome!
The people behind the prompt
The archive stays: real photos from Insomnia’s heyday, when aliases became friends, arguments became lore, and someone probably typed something regrettable into global chat.
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Ready to wake up?
No telnet client required. Open the browser client, make a character, and step into a resurrected MUD with a very old soul and a very new coat of paint.
To contact us, either email us at admin@insomnia-mud.com or simply logon to the MUD and shout for either Mork or Vx.