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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@soe.sony.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:52:54 -0800
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mats Lidstrom
> Back in '95 it was called avatars in Habitat/WorldsAway and I
> can't remember I've heard it called anything else. Never heard
> "toon" being used, but I'd guess that's a remnant from MS
> ToonChat.
I think The Realm and ToonChat were right around the same time. I
know that they called them "toons" in The Realm, which given its
graphics was inevitable.
Of course, now I am remembering that there was of course the game
AVATAR on PLATO in the 70s.
-Raph
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