'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 )"

[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 ^____^

[Mardur]

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

the chat server didn't process :) normally for whatever reason. All of your :)s looked like )s to the casual observer.

=) worked ^____^

But people still continued to use ) after :) worked. :) works on P99 and I still see the occasional ). Thought it was a euro thing but never saw it outside EQ.

[Raavak]

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

But people still continued to use ) after [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] worked. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] works on P99 and I still see the occasional ). Thought it was a euro thing but never saw it outside EQ.

Wait, [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] works?

I still use =)

Never knew it got fixed.

[mitic]

definitly comes from the word cartoon. ist just easier to name em toons than character

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[quido]

When I first started playing EQ almost two years ago, I thought the toon thing was pretty funny too. It was actually Allizia who got me started on that one.

What was even more strange to me, though, was the term "mob." If we can put the EQ aside for one moment, I hope you can all remember the standard definition of a mob. I remember my buddy helping me out in Blackburrow getting fangs as like a level 6 or whatever and he'd say "there's a mob here" and I'd be like "AHHHH!" and run for the zone because by "mob" I thought he meant "a nasty and angry mess of foes."

[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.