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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@soe.sony.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:07:54 -0800
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ola Fosheim Grostad
> "Koster, Raph" wrote:
>> I want to say that avatar was used before Snow Crash. Am I wrong?
> Farmer and Morningstar may have used it prior to that book, but
> that does not mean that Stephenson didn't make it the common word
> for user embodiement in the VR community.
Sure. but the OED is looking for first citations. :)
-Raph
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