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21735: Re: [MUD-Dev] First use of "avatar"?

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From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:23:30 +0100
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
"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.

Ola.
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