> what and why are furries? You know how some kids like to pretend to be animals? Furries never quit doing that once they grew up. > When did furries become a

> what and why are furries? You know how some kids like to pretend to be animals? Furries never quit doing that once they grew up. > When did furries become a thing? I have yet to run into a clear reference to them before the 1980s and they may primarily postdate even that If you want to be aggressively inclusive you can go all the way back to the earliest recorded myths about talking animals. If you want to limit yourself to "people who called themselves furries" then it started somewhere in the mid-seventies to early eighties. https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/History https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/History - be sure to check out the external links at the bottom, Patten's history is pretty good, though I advise skimming once the "Burned Furs" come up. > Is this true, why are furries so rich and well-funded, and why tech, specifically? A confluence of the timing of the growth of the Internet and the growth of the furry scene. You needed a certain amount of technical acumen to hang out on Furrymuck and roleplay as an animal person; as the Internet started being an important thing, it was not uncommon for someone whose day job was in tech to pass job opportunities on to their friends who were looking for excuses to get the hell out of Middle America. There are also plenty of broke furries, for what it's worth.