Origin Of Avtar

EveryBody at Ao is proud of their avtars ....but do u know whats the origin of avtar

In Sanskrit AVTAR= incarnation.

yup Avtar is the exact sanskrit word now extensively used in Hindi lang too.

Just for Some Chit-Chat.

Interesting

Except we use Avatar, not avtar. But that is the origin of it. Your avatar is your online pressence, or incarnation.

I'm fascinated...

hehehe

my mistake souleman actualy its avatar in sanskrit too....................

An episode of the X Files is 'Avatar',
Season 3, Episode 21.

However, it has no connection with the Internet... Assistant Director Skinner wakes up with a dead woman in his bed, and Mulder & Scully find out that she was a prostitute who had been hired by a man who attempts to kill Skinner's wife (Or something like that).

(Ya know, just usual kind of stuff to happen to an FBI employee)

I knew this....btw did u know that the Root account in some systems are often called Avetar for security reasons.... :)

Avetar means a (re-)incarnated deiety (I hope that's right).
awww well, I may havge it wrrong... :)
- Noia

http://abacus.best.vwh.net/oro/ouroboros.html <---the description of the ouroboros...
the (current) visual avatar is the yin-yang ...ties in closely with the ouroboros...
anyways...

Ouroboros

avatar n. Syn.

[in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] 1. Among people working on virtual reality and cyberspace interfaces, an avatar is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality. The term is sometimes used on MUDs. 2. [CMU, Tektronix] root, superuser. There are quite a few Unix machines on which the name of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'. This quirk was originated by a CMU hacker who found the terms `root' and `superuser' unimaginative, and thought `avatar' might better impress people with the responsibility they were accepting


Taken from the Jargon Lexicon of Tuxedo.Org, I think this pretty much describes what an avatar is ;)

Drats! Acid you beat me to the punch.
hehe. :)