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When Did This Web Site Start Using Avatars?

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10ClarionSt | 23:12 Sun 01st Sep 2019 | ChatterBank
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I seem to remember when I first joined, there were no avatars. Your screen name was next to whatever you'd posted/replied. If you were a new member, your name would appear on the site in green letters for a few weeks, then change to black. Who remembers a user called Diesel? Caused absolute ructions on here. Happy days!
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Avatars came around 2010

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/AB-Editors-Blog/Question888790.html
23:16 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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Wasn't he called dieseldick?
23:18 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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Could have been, Ken but I don't remember it quite like that!
23:22 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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and other names ..
23:22 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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And, going along with the thread "What Words Have Crept Into The English...". Whats wrong with the the term "pictures"?

23:26 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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Just typed 'dieseldick' into the search engine and he comes up as user inactive - last post in 2017. Think he came from Ireland - can't remember whether it was north or south of the backstop:-) I do however recall him being quite rude to me when i first began posting. Soon learned to give as good as i got though.
23:26 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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I agree, sanmac. Avatar is one of thse words too! I don't think anyone had heard of it till the film of the same name. Well, only geeky, nerdy types probably.
23:30 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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The way we use the word today is quite new but the word Avatar has History in its original meaning in Hinduism.

Hinduism
the manifestation of a deity, notably Vishnu, in human, superhuman, or animal form

Word origin of 'avatar'
C18: from Sanskrit avatāra a going down, from avatarati he descends, from ava down + tarati he passes over
23:47 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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Thanks Mama, but that's it for me! I'm off to bed. Don't want anything to do with any religion! See ya!
23:50 Sun 01st Sep 2019
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Well, I guess I'm a disbeliever because I don't think that anyone on this site is a manifestation of a deity...Thank God.
23:54 Sun 01st Sep 2019
Avatar Image Mamyalynne
Lots of words have traversed to a different use from their original meaning and been adopted into mainstream language.

Night 10C.
00:00 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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sammac.. I don't think that anyone on this site is a manifestation of a deity...Thank God.

You're welcome.
00:05 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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"thanks for the edumacation"
00:06 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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That was to:
Mamyalynne
00:08 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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Indeed ;-)
00:09 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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One good turn deserves another :-)
00:10 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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You're a wee devil Arky x
00:12 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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.. and have a loving heart with it Mamya.
00:23 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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I believe Diesel Dick still posts under the name of pumpjack.
00:24 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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You do indeed Arky, night.x
00:33 Mon 02nd Sep 2019

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