--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In internet speak, what exactly is an "Avatar" > I know what it is spiritually speaking, but what has the word been > usurped for in silly internetland...some kind of personal logo? > Anyone/geek know? >
The most common use is in MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games), where your avatar is the little dwarf/gnome/orc/troll/human/etc that you control in order to interact with other players' avatars or the computer-generated world and characters. Some dating services are supposed to be experimienting with avatars also. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
