1 2 3 Hecht, Eliah (2007-02-20). "The compleat WoW abbreviations". WoW Insider. คลังข้อมูลเก่า เก็บจาก แหล่งเดิม เมื่อ 2009-08-31. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2010-03-25. Mob: Short for "mobile" (derived from MUDs, where any NPC was either a stationary shopkeeper or mobile; see WoWWiki), this refers in WoW to NPCs, primarily NPCs that are meant to be killed.
1 2 Bartle, Richard (2003). Designing Virtual Worlds. New Riders. p. 102. ISBN0-13-101816-7. What's more of an issue is the presence in the virtual world of virtual creatures. These are commonly known as mobiles30 (mobs for short), and they represent the monsters and non-player characters who inhabit the virtual world. [...] 30From MUD1, "mobile objects." I called them that because creatures moving in a controlled but unpredictable way are like the kind of "mobiles" that hang from ceilings. Well, I was in kind of a hurry...
↑ Maloni, Kelly; Baker, Derek; Wice, Nathaniel (1994). Net Games. Random House / Michael Wolff & Company, Inc. p. 213. ISBN0-679-75592-6. mob or mobile ..... a monster in the game
1 2 Shah, Rawn; Romine, James (1995). Playing MUDs on the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 93–94. ISBN0-471-11633-5. One of the major types of objects that you will encounter on a Mud is the mobile. A mob (pronounced MOHb, not MAWb), or mobile, is a computer controlled creature. [...] If a mob is not friendly, it is known as an agg or aggressive mobile. It will hit you at the first opportunity, even the instant you walk into a room. A majority of Muds have dumb mobs. A dumb mob will fight you until you kill it or flee from it.
