 | | 07-11-2005, 07:19 PM |
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| An avatar and an icon is, essentially, the same thing. They have tons of names, icons, buddy icons, avatars, avies, avs, user pictures, etc. I don't know where the word comes from, but my guess would be from some software developpper who called the pictures avatars and it stuck.
Moving avs are technically animations, but since they are made for the same purpose, they are still considered to be an avatar, and are generally caled that, or a moving avatar.
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