retro Furcadia tee from 25 years ago found on ebay

i think this was from one of the furcadia fundraisers held by DrCat and 'Manda.

totally wholesome; a time when its inhabitants kept the entire business afloat through sheer love and dedication to the online community.

#furcadia #win95 #retroGaming #furry #furry_art

this is the secret sauce for any good online network like mastodon, or game world like Furcadia:

“Okay. So it's 1978, and you are a student at the University of Essex, and you're studying computer science. You're not supposed to be there.
You're not supposed to be at university: no one in your family's ever been to university before... [Roy and I,] we weren't rich. My parents my father was a gas fitter, you know. He spent all day installing cookers in people's houses. My mother was a school meals cook.... I've got a Northern accent, [and] Roy comes from Wolverhampton, and he's got a West Midlands accent.... It doesn't matter, being really smart, if people-as soon as you show up, as soon as you open your mouth, they've pigeonholed you because you're working class.
And we wanted a place where we could go where none of this mattered, where who you were was based on your strength of character, on who you were as a person, and it didn't matter what sex, gender, class, whatever you were, you could just go there and be and become yourself.”
- Richard Bartle, on Matt Chat 296 “On MUDs and British Snobbery”

source: @aaronareed’s exceptionally good 50 Years of Text Games (p. 143)

#mastodon #virtualworlds #furcadia

Simple/cel-shaded port for Mowgli! #portrait #icon #commission #monkey #furcadia

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Portrait/icon commission for Jungle! #portrait #icon #furcadia #furry #anthro #commission #feline #jungle #tropical

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so i'd love an open discussion about something that i don't have much vocabulary for, if only because there are so few examples of it on the world wide web. anyone/everyone is welcome to chime in.

back in the mid/late 90s there were some attempts at turning web forums and chat interfaces into virtual worlds. beyond all of the 3d chat rooms and telnet muds, there were some 2d graphical sites like moo.ca. The Canada SchoolNet moo was a mud/moo that allowed users to add/remove/modify rooms in real time, in-browser.

snapshot archived here - click 'Web Walkthrough' to walk around:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010417181313/http://www.moo.ca/home

Furcadia went a hundred steps further and integrated a 2d tile-based world with a world editor *and* script editor, so you could build your own "dreams" (multiplayer instances) within the shared game world. the entire game was built around socialization.

both of the above games are not just fancy web chat terminals. building and decorating the game world is a critical part of the social experience. you create a dining room, put chairs in it, program the chairs to allow players to use the 'sit' command, and then invite people into your dining room for a make-believe dinner party.

we now have reddit and various web forums. they're effectively the same threaded conversation that has been around since the usenet days.

what i *don't* see anymore are graphical WWW virtual worlds built around socialization. we either lock down everything and only allow chat. are there web-based MUDs/MUSHes/MOOs that allow for both world building *and* conversation?

#moo #mud #smallWeb #indieWeb #worldWideWeb #furcadia

Simple portrait/icon for Hypnotique! #icon #portrait #furcadia #kitsune #mythical #fantasy

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Missing DOS Monday!

Today's lost media is The Sexotica Collection by Dragon’s Eye Productions!

The full version containing four stories is confirmed to exist, but few were sold. The original source code is also missing.

Possible filenames for missing promo data include $exypix.gif and $exotica.gif

I'm wary of posting more images here, since they get pretty explicit, but if you're curious, the demo is on Internet Archive.

#MSDOSMonday #Furcadia #Pixel #MSDOS #RetroComputing #LostMedia

I made a page archiving information about Furcadia's end of summer festival:

https://eggware.xyz/gaming/furc/rameen/

I spent weeks going through the Internet Archive to make this possible, so I'd appreciate some love  

#furcadia #retrogaming