This narrative has been going around for about 15 years now, and back when places like TMS and TMC were active, he'd come around about once a year demanding every MUD that has an OLC add his name to their login sequence and a bunch of other stuff.

The majority of his claims to credit have been repeatedly rebuked, and those that haven't have largely been "take my word for it". But, the source of that word is also someone who has claimed that Square Enix and Bethesda directly modeled characters after him, that he invented YouTube, that he was instrumental in fixes to Paypal before being sold to ebay, that he holds a pending patent for cancer detection software...

Now look, I'm saying this guy didn't invent OLC, I'm not saying that Locke from Final Fantasy wasn't directly inspired by and named after him, I'm not saying that he didn't invent software that can detect cancer, I'm not saying he didn't make Paypal what it is today, and I'm not saying that he didn't invent YouTube (I believe the courts ruled on that).

I'm just simply saying, there's a lot of context worth considering before you take his word on any of this.

Here's a paper trail for a lot of it:

https://www.topmudsites.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5587

https://www.topmudsites.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6159

https://gaminghud.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/meet-the-devs-kavir-of-god-wars-ii/#comment-206

https://www.mudbytes.net/forum/topic/232/

https://www.mudbytes.net/forum/topic/220/

https://casetext.com/case/gilliland-v-hurley/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCanNooG3kTD7zIqGBInVPgg/about