Quote Originally Posted by Callinon View Post
It may interest you to learn that using the term "toon" to refer to a player's avatar does not originate in WoW. It is MUCH older than that.
I first heard this being used in Phantasy Star Universe, which came out 2 years after wow, and it caught on very quick from there.

Before that was Perfect World, and they used the word "alt", same thing with Phantasy Star Online(all versions).