char was so 80's PnP rpg...
we used toon in eq, but not Asheron's Call or UO...
I don't recall anyone ever saying toon in any MUD though. We played a lot of MUDs...it was char or "my dude" or "my CLASS" or actual reference to the name of the character for the real RPers.
So, I know it was from before Kunark....so like "woot", it's difficult to pinpoint an example.
BTW:
"woot" was coined on Bertox during a normal guild grind group by a guy in Elkhart, IN. He mistyped "woo loot" - lag or what the fuck ever just left woot, so don't make me explain how shitty the computers were that would run pre kunark EQ - and he hit enter. His guild group picked up on it, and then the server then the whole game. True story...his name is Adam, played on Bertox as a mage I think, then went to Torv as an Iksar necro on kunark launch day with my sis and I, I think Jen was on Torv already part time to just get away from the guild. He was my sister's boyfriend for quite a while, and he quit EQ when they broke up in 2002, so he missed out on all the good raids my sis, her new boyfriend, and I had on Torv with BoW...
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