How did UDIC come about?
By September 1994, a very large number of Dragons had given up on Prodigy and written the Prodigy Dragons off as a lost cause. That month, it was discovered that some Dragons had Internet email addresses, and knew someone that knew someone else’s address, and so on… the upshot being that, in the space of roughly a week, about two dozen Dragons had been reunited from across the United States. Two of these Dragons, Ethereal Dragon (Stephen Brindle) and Gold Dragon (Doug Ricket, the creator of the original club), had been idly discussing the possibility of making an Internet version of the Dragons for quite some time. Ethereal was the one gracious enough to actually provide the utilities for it to become possible. The result was Ultima Dragons – Internet Chapter (at the time, the Prodigy club still existed, if only marginally). Ethereal was responsible for proposing and then creating the alt.games.ultima.dragons Usenet newsgroup, as well as the first Dragons FTP site. It must be noted t
