'w'! Oh heck! Congrats, little friend! I wonder if my old abandoned account back in the day still exists... I remember VCL died recently though too. ;w;! Weh!

'w'! Also, eee! I hope you have a wonderful and safe vacation! *all the hugs!* 'w'!

VCL was a fun place! Nowadays it feels very weird and outdated and slow... but haha it was a nice formal gallery for a while. :3

'w'! So many different people, and just a simple gallery. No comments, no journals, just... Throw art up, then it's up! It was quieter, but I feel we've evolved beyond that.

Congrats on your milestone ^^
*hugs*

Thanks Mr. Tanook!

Congrats! ^^

Thank ya koopaling buddy~!

You beat me here by eleven months!

I'm only guessing, but I think close to a third of the users here today weren't even born yet, when either of us joined!

Back before FA, I got most of my furry art from places like SCFA, VCL, and newsgroups like alt.binaries.pictures,furry.erotica and alt.binaries.pictures,furry.

Haha, oh wow, well good job bein' around a long time too still!
And yeah. D: Haha I was almost gonna say, "I hope most the users on FA are at least as old..." but uh, a lot of us probably joined a bit earlier than we should have. >w>
Haha I've only heard of VCL between those! It would have been fun being into furry earlier just to see what weird little websites were around. :3

SCFA was the Squeaky Clean Furry Archive. It went from 1996 until 1998. SCFA became Yerf in 1998, and it lasted until 2004. It came up again and went down several times for a couple more years.

VCL was Velan Central Library, sometimes called, Vixen Controlled Library. It was active from 1999 until 2005.

The newsgroups started in 1986 when the NNTP protocol was formed. They are still around today. But, most of the hobby, art, kink, lifestyle, and non-academic type groups are so infested with spam and malware that they are no longer used for their intended purpose.

We had SheezyArt from 2003 until around 2013.

Deviant Art began around 2000, and is still in use. It is not a furry specific site though. Furry content might be about one percent of all the art there.

SoFurry started in 2009, and is still in use.

Weasyl started around 2013, and is still used. But, any time I've ever looked, there appears to be almost no activity.

e621 started in 2007, and is still active. You can't have anything resembling a profile there, and I don't think there's the concept of following someone there to be notified when they post something. It's good for finding art in general, but not for watching or following what any specific artist makes.

Inkbunny started in 2010, and is still very active.

It looks like Fur Affinity is the longest continuously active furry art web site, as it started in 2005. Deviant art would be the longest, but such a low percent of the art there is furry themed, that it can hardly be imagined as a furry art site.

Almost all websites back then were personal hobby, math, science or kink sites. There were pretty much no corporate sites yet, and any sort of ads on the web was an extremely rare thing. A couple years later, art sites, shopping sites, corporate sites and advertising were starting to become common. Then, as families and children started to get access to the net for the first time, a major effort to sanitize the net started - with little success at first. It's amazing, the extreme kinks that would come up in searches in the mid '90s, and almost nothing was passworded and age locked. It's not like kids were all over the net at the time, so you'd see almost everything, both legal and not, right out in the open. The net was a very different place more than 25 years ago.

Well, SoFurry actually started out as Yiffstar in 2002 (originally meant to host furry fan fiction stories that was being lost due to neglectance but later expanded to include artwork and music) until it was renamed and relaunched towards the end of 2009 as the site we know today, and kept its existing content and user accounts. So its technically the longest continuously active furry art website if you include its time before the relaunch.

Very true. I was thinking mainly of visual art sites, but writing is art too, so I should have mentioned Yiffstar. SoFurry has gone though several changes over the years. Yiffstar, to SoFurry, to SoFurry 2, and now to the new SoFurry Beta.

You beat me by almost 7 hours! XD 18-years on a site is just wild to think about.

Haha woah, that's crazy! A ton of us really did join within like the same week in December, or even the same day! I only remember a friend telling me about it and hopping in, news must have spread fast. :O Wonder how you heard about it!

I honestly do not remember how I heard of FA. Most likely was someone posting a journal saying "here's the new site" I remember it being shortly after Sheezy decided it wanted to go all clean.

Long and hard. ;3 Unlike... most my drawings.

felicidades¡¡ congratulations¡¡

Graci gracias~!

18 whole entire years thats a LOT of time

So no matter how tiny my parts are, everyone knows I'm a certified adult~! B3

lmfao

Well, congratulations. :3 *Puts a party hat on you.*

Woo-hoo!

Here's to 18 more years, at least! Thanks for sharing your heart and your art with us for all these years.

Happy anniversary

HAPPY FANNIVERSARY NISHI! 🥳

It's kinda heartwarming to know that despite things changing online so much we will always be FA moots hehe.

My account is maybe like.... 10 years now? Which I find pretty impressive too. Even if I've nuked my gallery a few times (anxiety does that...) I'm happy to be here regardless cuz there really aren't a lot of art sites around anymore.

Love seeing your history though! You're doing so great and your projects are always fun. Take it easy, we love ya ❤

I've been around for 15 of those 18 years. And looking back, a lot of things used to be a lot simpler. Of course, I was also more immature.

I wish I could be the kind of person I am now, but with everything being as easy as it was in 2008. =3=

My account is about that age, too.

Congrats, Nishi.

I just had my fifth anniversary last month.

I always love your cute art style!

ha, old.

Congrats! Your account is now old enough to make a NSFW account :D

*has his 16 y.o. FA account take out your FA account*

Wow in some way you're younger than me! B3

Oh wow, I just noticed next month my account will be 18 too! o_o

Congrats!

Haha oh wow, it's cool to see a few folks from way back when are still here 18 years later! :O That's nuts.

Dang that's epic, congrats!

You got two years on me.

Wow! Mine's 16 years as of the 10th as well! Damn! I was in high school back then! O.o

I love you.

Wah! I love you too Foxune. :3

Congratulations on your FA ID. Glad you were here in days past. You have posted and contributed so much to the site and the community in general with your positive attitude and lovely art. Always full of unique style and creativity. Always a joy to see what you would come up with next. Thank you so much for always being so gentle and with me and others. As you continue to walk your journey, I hope you will have many more good times and creative art pieces and blessings as well. C:> You really did take off and soar to great heights, keep on climbing higher Oxy! <3

PS
I'd love to see more of Boxer Beats. It's a classic now. <3 Also, any other series that you will want to work on too. Thanks again Oxy!

Wowzers! <3 Congratulations, Oxxy! FA's lucky you've been brightening it up with your presence for so long. I'm lucky too, since I first found out about ya here! And realized you were super super cool!

Congrats!