This is so off it's not even funny. First of all I can safely say that furry / funny animal books have been around since the 1950's (if you need information on this do a google search on atomic mouse, tom and jerry, woody woodpecker etc and so forth).
Also as for the cons I can say that I was there (was at Confurence 5 - 10 and every FC from 1999 to present) and the demise of Confurence was not one person or one factor it was a myriad of things and it had gone from a small gathering of people to a boatload of people (which reached a crescendo at Confurence 10 where we inhabited a group of hotels in San Diego).
Furnation was not the first website. VCL was around WAY before that and Yerf came around 1996 (http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Yerf). But one of the most influential parts of furry fandom was not discussed in this article.. it wasn't even glanced over.
And that was the internet. Which was made the furry fandom what it is today. Back in the day of the usenet groups of alt.fan.furry and irc channels and developing into furrymuck back in 1990 (And I joined up in the summer of 1992).
I could go on and on about this at great length.. but I won't. Hell you can even trace furry / funny animals back to the prehistoric era and the egyptian times (where people worshipped gods with animal heads).
But yeah.. you've been misinformed about some of the stuff that has gone on. If you want real facts.. talk to some of the people who've posted.. like me.
Wow. Just wow.
This is so off it's not even funny. First of all I can safely say that furry / funny animal books have been around since the 1950's (if you need information on this do a google search on atomic mouse, tom and jerry, woody woodpecker etc and so forth).
Also as for the cons I can say that I was there (was at Confurence 5 - 10 and every FC from 1999 to present) and the demise of Confurence was not one person or one factor it was a myriad of things and it had gone from a small gathering of people to a boatload of people (which reached a crescendo at Confurence 10 where we inhabited a group of hotels in San Diego).
Furnation was not the first website. VCL was around WAY before that and Yerf came around 1996 (http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Yerf). But one of the most influential parts of furry fandom was not discussed in this article.. it wasn't even glanced over.
And that was the internet. Which was made the furry fandom what it is today. Back in the day of the usenet groups of alt.fan.furry and irc channels and developing into furrymuck back in 1990 (And I joined up in the summer of 1992).
I could go on and on about this at great length.. but I won't. Hell you can even trace furry / funny animals back to the prehistoric era and the egyptian times (where people worshipped gods with animal heads).
But yeah.. you've been misinformed about some of the stuff that has gone on. If you want real facts.. talk to some of the people who've posted.. like me.