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From: "Richard A. Bartle" <richard@mud.co.uk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:53:51 -0000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, Raph Koster wrote:
> avatar (n.) antedating 1992 (in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash)
> sense is a VR representation of a person
> I want to say that avatar was used before Snow Crash. Am I wrong?
Would you count the Avatar of "Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar" as a
use of the word "Avatar" in a VR context? If so, it was released in
1985.
Richard
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