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From: Lars Duening <lars@bearnip.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 07:44:02 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Koster, Raph wrote on Tuesday, December 11 2001, 09:34:40:
> I want to say that avatar was used before Snow Crash. Am I wrong?
> While we're at it:
> - what were the avatars in Habitat called?
"Avatars" :-)
According to the appendix of my edition of Snow Crash, Neal came up
with the term by himself, but learned after the first publishing
that Habitat had already used it with a similar meaning.
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Lars Duening; lars@bearnip.com
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