*grins *

My first MMO was text based.  We didn't have no stinking graphics!

It's also where the word pwned comes from.  One of the key tags for a prop item was ownership.  If something was p-owned it belonged to a player and could not be deleted except by an admin.

If you beat sometime in game very badly you figuratively p-owned them, or as we wrote it back then "pwned".  You didn't actually apply the data to his character or anything.  It was the mmorpg equivalent of saying, "I made him my bitch"


Honestly though specific nomenclature isn't really that important.  The concepts are.  We used to call tanks "bricks" for example.