It's simply this: When one person does something a little or enjoys something unusal in the older days they had to learn some of the more what to some may seem childish hobbies by breaking through the layer of an individual they commit themselves to day to day.
On the internet on can put that case forward in anonymously. Therefore it's the first thing you'd know about those around you instead of the last.
Sure you could create groups and all that, but furries are a minority everywhere and searching for one without the internet is extremely tough. Especially since knowing they're not along in the world is probably what influenced other to express such things as an outward part of their identity (which as a result makes them easier to find IRL. I could give you a list of individuals I met through college who I knew they were furry, but I never told them I was one myself.)
It's simply this: When one person does something a little or enjoys something unusal in the older days they had to learn some of the more what to some may seem childish hobbies by breaking through the layer of an individual they commit themselves to day to day.
On the internet on can put that case forward in anonymously. Therefore it's the first thing you'd know about those around you instead of the last.
Sure you could create groups and all that, but furries are a minority everywhere and searching for one without the internet is extremely tough. Especially since knowing they're not along in the world is probably what influenced other to express such things as an outward part of their identity (which as a result makes them easier to find IRL. I could give you a list of individuals I met through college who I knew they were furry, but I never told them I was one myself.)