this is news to all of us greymuzzles with multiple decades invested in the fandom
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Brocon@lemmy.world 3 months agoNope. Furries are a really recent phenomenon.
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Fal@yiffit.net 3 months ago
What? Not in terms of the history of the internet
Jomega@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We’ve existed since the 80’s. The only thing recent about us is the population boom the internet gave us.
Brocon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But the broader visibility out of the niches is a more recent phenomenon. I’m around the net since the early bulletin boards thanks to my really forward looking parents. And jeah. I’ve seen shit early on. But furries are something that I’ve first encountered in their recent form in the late 2000s early 2010s. Andnthat was about 20 years after the first acoustic coupler sounds rang through my parents living room. And I sure as hell didn’t shy away from all the places where they could have been encountered.