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	Yahoo! Messenger Avatars & history Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet, the yahoo messenger avatar is a place dedicated to your personality. After all, an avatar is your persona in the virtual world. Bookmark us and check back often, we're always adding new avatars! In English, the word has come to mean 'an embodiment, a bodily manifestation of the Divine. However, the Sanskrit word Avatara means 'the descent of God' or simply 'incarnation.' The term is used primarily in Hindu texts. For example, Krishna is the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu the Preserver, whom many Hindus worship as God. The Dasavatara are ten particular 'great' incarnations of Vishnu. As used for a computer representation of a user, the term dates at least as far back as 1985, when it was used as the name for the player character in the Ultima series of computer games.

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Despite the widespread use of avatars, it is unknown which Internet forums were the first to use them; the earliest forums did not include avatars as a default feature, and they were included in unofficial 'hacks' before eventually being made standard. Avatars on Internet forums serve the purpose of representing users and their actions, personalizing their contributions to the forum, and may represent different parts of their persona, beliefs, interests or social status in the forum. The traditional avatar system used on most Internet forums is a small (96x96 to 100x100 pixels, for example) square-shaped area close to the user's forum post, where the avatar is placed. Some forums allow the user to upload an avatar image that may have been designed by the user or acquired from elsewhere. Other forums allow the user to select an avatar from a preset list or use an auto-discovery algorithm to extract one from the user's homepage.