This is a short player-facing note. It is not a recovered Wayback article and does not invent founding dates or chronicle events that are not documented in the current wiki and code.
Nilgiri the Forgotten World is a classic-style MUD: text rooms, mobiles, items, skills and spells, and a persistent character database. Players connect with:
ssh nilgiri@nilgiri.net
Nilgiri descends from the DikuMUD family of codebases. The live server is a Java rewrite / continuation known as Neo-Nilgiri. Content and systems still show Diku-era zone ideas (city guards, shopkeepers, rent, etc.) while Code Law documents the Java, H2, and Beanshell tooling used to rebuild and extend the world.
Fragments of intent survive as editorial pages rather than a single official timeline: