i picked up using my family's first computer pretty easily. then a year or so later we got dial-up, then a bit later i had salvaged a broken laptop from my dad's work. on that laptop i found agn.ph, which was (might still be? idk) a pokemon-centric image and story board. that led me to find art by zaush and gideon and some super pixely scanned copies of genus male magazine. i lurked the art and furaffinity alone for years and then finally actually tried to make friends in the fandom.

Somehow, back in 2003-4ish I found the fantasy art gallery Elfwood. Obviously I went to the first gallery, which had Ursula Vernon, Xianjaguar and a few other furries. From there I followed their links to Yerf and Livejournals and found more old school furry artists including Heather Bruton (...responsible for my "I like men now" moment).

Later I found deviantart, then the webcomic twokinds and eventually FA. I only really got involved in 2020, posting on twitter and reddit but never really found a community or friend group until looking into the furry scene on Twitch.

Hmm... Well I assume like so many people here, I grew up enjoying furry media without realising it actually was because furry. Sonic the Hedgehog, books with animal protagonists, that sort of thing.

My first introduction to the actual furry fandom was a NSFW flash "game" called Beach Linda where basically you chatted up and sexed a fox woman. It was strangely alluring to me, and for some reason I found myself looking up other stuff, eventually finding bondofox.net (which somehow is still up, after all these years). I then found furaffinity and have been lurking there ever since.

I pretty much only lurk on the NSFW side of the fandom and don't really talk to people. I'd like to get involved in the fandom more, both SFW and NSFW, but social anxiety suuuucks.