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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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I wonder if the Ultima series had anything do with that, since the player character was called the Avatar. NATOpedia seems to support that, claiming that Ultima IV popularized the use of the term avatar in this context.
Yeah, I think it was Moorcock > Ultima > MUDs > BBS > General adoption