The Bizarre Pipeline Between Furries and Your IT Department

Furries are weirdly, disproportionately everywhere in the tech industry — and it turns out there's an actual reason for it that goes back to 1990. We're talking early Usenet, university servers, a tech company that literally recruited out of a furry convention program book. If you work in tech and you've got a furry-coworker story, the comments are open. Names optional. I read all of them. The Spinoff — "Who runs the internet? Furries" https://thespinoff.co.nz/internet/11-... Vice — "Once Upon a Time, This Tech Company Actively Recruited Furries" https://www.vice.com/en/article/once-... Furscience (IARP) — Education demographics https://furscience.com/research-findi... WikiFur — 1990s timeline (FurryMUCK, alt.fan.furry) https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/1990s Wikipedia — FurryMUCK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FurryMUCK 🐔Send Me Things! Caffeine Fox PO Box 237 Edwardsville IL 62025 Follow Me On: 🐔TWITCH: Caffeine_Fox 🐔 TWITTER (X):   / caffeinefoxes   🐔 BlueSky: @caffeinefox.bsky.social 🐔 INSTAGRAM:   / that_hyper_.  . 🐔 TIKTOK: @caffeinefox 🐔 Discord:   / discord   ___________________________________________ 🐔Support Me On Patreon:   / caffeine_fox   ___________________________________________ #furry #furryfandom #furries