From: bluefire@well.com (Bob Jacobson)
Subject: Re: MISC: First use of "avatars", "virtual worlds"
Date: 2 Feb 1997 23:32:13 GMT
Message-ID: <5d385t$4v@was.hooked.net>
Organization: The Well, San Francisco, CA


In article <01bc0ef3$8321bf40$19098b80@springer%tcc>,
ofer springer <springer@cc.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>the first to use the word avatar in a vr context was neal stephanson
>in his book snowcrash (a great one i must add), the book had great
>influance on the whole vr community and creators that loving this book
>made companys name themselves blacksun and such.
>

I'm pretty sure that the Habitat's use of "avatars" preceded SNOW CRASH
by several years in an early online VR-like application.

Bob




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