MOO--The Second Decade?

C&W Online 2005, Lennie Irvin

enCore's place and history

The enCore MOO Project began in 1997 as an open source development project to promote MOOs in education, in particular web-moos like the enCore MOO Core and Xpress Graphical Interface created by Jan Holmevik.
(see enCore Manifesto)

Jan Holmevik was the chief programmer until Spring 2004.
Release history
--enCore 1.0 April, 1998
--enCore 2.0 June, 1999
--enCore 3.0 April, 2001
--enCore 4.0 Jan, 2004

By January 2004, enCore was the most used web-interface MOO (see Portfolio of enCore MOOs).

When Jan Holmevik completed his dissertation in Spring 2004, he withdrew from managing the enCore MOO Project, and handed the chief programming duties over to Daniel Jung who had worked with him at the University of Bergen, Norway.

With the withdrawal of Jan from enCore, and the other factors leading to the decline in MOOs, a group of enCore users came together to form a "consortium" to support the enCore MOO Project and the continued development of enCore.