From: jwtlai@jeeves.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
Subject: Re: PHIL: Use of "VR" term
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:46:04 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Apr6.194604.21527@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo


In article <1992Apr5.180557.10458@u.washington.edu> lwl@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Lydia Leong) writes:
>MUDders tend to use the term "VR" to refer to anything not "RL" (real life).
>It's the most convenient term to use, since the world of MUDs encompasses
>several different subgenres, and VR is easy to type, easy to remember, and
>has, within the MUD community, a commonly understood meaning.

Common enough to have made it into the Hacker's Dictionary.