Lintilla (talker)

Lintilla, also known as Lintilla's Multiple Worlds and sometimes as Multiple Worlds or Original Multiple Worlds is the first ever Multiple Worlds talker that began in 1994 as one of the first ever NUTS talkers. It was the second adult talker in existence following lighthouse. From its inception in 1994, Lintilla had a core user group which regularly reached the maximum allowable users on at one time, which was set to 40, and at present this is still the case in their "Dungeon" world. Lintilla lays claim to being the most popular adult-orientated talker in history. [http://www.mndaily.com/ae/Print/1998/02/sections/drdate.html]

About

Lintilla is based on the name used in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where a beautiful clone is created with 3 trillion sisters. Thus, each world can have a lintilla on it, and be beautiful.

Lintilla was created by "Bushtail", a Swedish woman who wanted to have a place for older women to go to share sexual explorations in a safe environment. At the time, there was nowhere to go for this, as none of the existing talkers catered for adult ages, and did not encourage sexual conversations. Bushtail wanted to make sure that the women were never harassed, so decided to make a rule that only women could be made in to wizards, a rule that exists to this day. There has never been a male wizard or superuser on lintilla. Even when "Ratatosk" took control, he was not permitted to become a wizard. [http://lintilla.df.lth.se/html/story.html]

Eventually, "Bushtail" had to leave the internet, and her friend "Ratatosk" took over.

Multiple Worlds

Lintilla was the first ever talker to have Multiple Worlds, or a number of talkers that were linked together, all acting as one talker.

Lintilla began because of aims that "Bushtail" wanted to explore, and hence had a place for women-only - the first ever talker to make such a ruling (although many exist now), so as to explore lesbianism and bisexuality, as well as just to have a place where she could go that men did not go. "Bushtail" was also interested in exploring BDSM, and so created a world for these explorations, which she wanted to be separate to her exploration of lesbianism. She was also interested in exploring zoophilia, and hence created "The Forest". She also thought that some men might like to explore homosexuality too, so created a men's port. These 4 were the main 4 ports, but Bushtail also recognised that some people might not want to explore sexuality, or else might want to explore some other form of sexuality besides these 3, or might simply want a break, so she made 1 port just as a general welcoming port, which she numbered 5000 so that everyone realised it was the main one, as well as 5003 which was meant to be as a place to go to when you wanted to get away for a while.

Over time, more worlds were added, including a world for bikers, a world for hippies, a chapel, and a more serious BDSM world called Roissy, and many others. Lintilla has had as many as 15 worlds at a time, and additionally at one stage hosted Fantasia's multiple worlds as well as a MUD.

Users can see who is on other worlds quite simply by typing in .who (port number) and they use the same mail account for all worlds.

When Intimate Delights, Fantasia's multiple worlds, Miramar and The Rainbow Room were hosted on lintilla's server, they all had new accounts from the other worlds, and were not officially a part of lintilla.

leepy's multiple worlds

In early 1995, the manager of Lintilla, a super user named "Sleepy" was fired by Lintilla's owner "Ratatosk" (who Sleepy believes was the same person as the creator "Bushtail"). "Graeme", the coder of Lintilla, controversially gave Sleepy the Lintilla code, which she took to make her own multiple worlds, calling it "Sleepy's multiple worlds" as an almost identical copy of Lintilla. [http://www.sleepy.net/herstory.html]

There is ongoing dispute as to whether Sleepy's multiple worlds is the "original" multiple worlds, or whether lintilla's multiple worlds is.

Fantasia's multiple worlds

Fantasia's multiple worlds was an adult-orientated talker that ran NUTS 2.1. It began initially while "Fantasia" was Super User of lintilla in 1995, then was hosted on lintilla itself, and eventually became its own Multiple Worlds in its own right. It operated from July 1995-late 2002.

"Fantasia" was the second ever Super User of "lintilla" in July 1995 (and the first that lintilla recognise), after Sleepy was fired and went on to make her own chat site. A friend called "Tick" coded her first worlds "The Castle" and "The Island" which were opened with help from "Ratatosk", the owner of lintilla, and they were hosted at a site in Germany. In December 1995, "Ratatosk" offered Fantasia lintilla's 4000 ports to store her talkers. She agreed, and began to create more talkers on lintilla's server in her own vision, and had 2 copies of her original worlds "The Castle" and "The Island". On October 26, 1996, the talkers were moved to galaxynet, and at that point had 15 worlds. Fantasia retired as SU of lintilla at that point, and became owner and manager of her own talkers in her own right. From 1996-1998, the talkers grew to number 30 worlds. In 1998 Fantasia moved her 2 original talkers, "The Castle" and "The Island" to talker.com. Shortly thereafter she closed the remaining 28 worlds. The two talkers remained on talker.com until 2002.

ee also

*cybersex
*talker
*Nuts (Talker)

External links

* [http://lintilla.df.lth.se/ Lintilla official site]
* [http://www.mndaily.com/ae/Print/1998/02/sections/drdate.html Dr Date's review of net sex, describing lintilla]
* [http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:_zWii8ZoHokJ:www.scottkristi.net/+%22lintilla%27s+multiple+worlds%22&hl=en Scott Kristi talking about how he met his wife on lintilla]
* [http://www.sleepy.net/ Sleepy's multiple worlds official site]
* [http://www.sleepy.net/herstory.html Sleepy's multiple worlds official site story about lintilla]
* [http://lintilla.df.lth.se/html/su1.html List of past super users on Lintilla's official web site - Fantasia]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20010619120003/fantasia.galaxynet.com/ Archive of Fantasia's official site]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20010616190247/fantasia.galaxynet.com/fant.htm Archive of Fantasia's Official site history]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20010602133525/fantasia.galaxynet.com/links1.htm Archive of Fantasia's links]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19990219095005/richardsons-inc.com/intimate/ 1999 archive of Intimate Delights shop]
* [http://lintilla.df.lth.se/~swantis/ The Rainbow Room]
* [http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Sands/9859/friendlinks.html Site listing Miramar]
* [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/7853/adult.html TRE: Adult talkers] - old talker list
* [http://catonine.virtue.nu/planes.html Cat's history of the Planes of Existence]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20001004120125/www.geocities.com/Athens/1040/talker1.html Cat's talker story 1 about spying]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20001004181256/www.geocities.com/Athens/1040/talker2.html Cat's talker story 2 about hacking]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20000310145736/www.geocities.com/Athens/1040/abouttalker.html Cat's brief history of the Planes of Existence]
* [http://amnuts.talker.com/cgi-bin/AMboard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=chatter&Post=43&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session= Amnuts message board discussing the events that destroyed talkers]