'character' = 'toon'. when and why?

[guineapig]

Always used "char" as an abbreviation for character. It's just as short as toon but actually makes sense.

[rockhopper]

Interesting question. A few minutes of googling, and the earliest reference I have found to "toon" is from a post on Alla's in May, 2004. WoW was released 6 months later in November.

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.html?id=4618

[rockhopper]

Well, 2002 now...

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/e...lift-20020318/

[Mardur]

The biggest EQ mystery to me was everyone who would denote a smiley with just a closed parenthesis. I've never seen it outside of EQ.

"Thx for the sow hun )"

[Mardur]

The only thing I can think of is that it grew out of the fact that if you just typed "[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]" it would become an emote:

Soandso )

But that doesn't completely explain why people would do it in the middle of sentences.

[Dantes]

I thought toon was a Euro thing.

[Swishahouse]

AND YOU LOVE IT???

[Autotune]

I remember calling them toons back in EQ.

[Anger]

Originally Posted by SyanideGas [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Toon=World of Warcraft BS

Nah, people have been using 'toon' since at least classic EQ, probably before.

[Dirt McGirt]

Originally Posted by Mardur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The biggest EQ mystery to me was everyone who would denote a smiley with just a closed parenthesis. I've never seen it outside of EQ.

"Thx for the sow hun )"

the chat server didn't process [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] normally for whatever reason. All of your [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]s looked like )s to the casual observer.

=) worked ^____^