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  1. March 29th, 2002, 05:20 PM #1
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    Cool 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.

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  2. March 29th, 2002, 05:31 PM #2
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    Interesting
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  3. March 29th, 2002, 05:33 PM #3
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    Except we use Avatar, not avtar. But that is the origin of it. Your avatar is your online pressence, or incarnation.
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  4. March 29th, 2002, 05:41 PM #4
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    I'm fascinated...

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  5. March 29th, 2002, 05:50 PM #5
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    my mistake souleman actualy its avatar in sanskrit too....................
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  6. March 29th, 2002, 05:59 PM #6
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    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)
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  7. March 29th, 2002, 08:34 PM #7
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    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...
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  8. March 30th, 2002, 03:29 AM #8
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    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...

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  9. March 30th, 2002, 04:03 AM #9
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    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
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  10. March 30th, 2002, 04:20 AM #10
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    Drats! Acid you beat me to the punch.
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