Here goes my first post on Lemmy ever...

Does anyone remember FurryMUCK and Furcadia? They were some of the earliest furry themed exploration games out there and I sank hours into each one back in the day. My furry friend circle overlapped with Dr Cat, the creator of Furcadia and his apartment was once the epicenter of the fandom in central Texas. I really do miss those times - lots of extremely talented, friendly, and weird-in-a-good-way folks gathered there. It was a giant brain trust of people that once worked at Origin Systems on games like Ultima and Wing Commander.

In cleaning up some stale directories on my homelab I ran across the last archive of my old Furcadia character which led me down the proverbial rabbit hole. It turns out the game still exists and I think I might rejoin again.

Anyone else have memories playing these or similar furry games? Got any modern ones you like today?

VCL (Velan Central Library/Vixen Controlled Library) was a major early gathering place for furry art and stories. The original site went down some years ago but this archive remains.

The first openly "furry" musician I ever heard of. He wasn't prolific but I always liked his music.

He ran the Furry Music Foundation and appeared on several compilation cd's.

AFAIK he's still alive.

https://youtu.be/SFBCNnOhYgs (video from the dev explaining the concept)

I like having a space for us old codgers who remember the pre-facebook world.

Mono-spaced type has been all but removed from places on the internet, so it's no surprise larger scale ASCII art isn't common anymore. But have any of you made such stuff way back when, or perhaps more recently for nostalgic fun?

I made this at the end of 2022 when I realized Notepad++ was mono-spaced by default, and wanted to try creating my sona. Text is an interesting medium to work with, it reminds me of pixel art in a way due to the constraints. That and for the first time in my life I found a use for the insert key, absolutely amazing.