Dress-up

[2] In the mid- to late 1990s, webmasters began creating interactive virtual dress-up games in which a person could drag and drop clothes onto a paper doll-like image.

One of the most notable early adaptors of virtual dress up technology were the Kisekae Set System (KiSS), which were developed in Japan.

The next phenomenon was Dollz: small, pixel-art GIF images that were presented scattered on websites, and allowed users to be dragged onto the pixel dolls.

Within weeks thousands of creatively modified dollz were redistributed around the many Palace servers, replacing the default smiley face avatars that were previously used.

Flash offered a visual-based way for artists to learn simple programming, and put a powerful tool in the hands of doll enthusiasts.