#furcadia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #furcadia, aggregated by home.social.
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while i was doing some preservation work on Furcadia, just stumbled upon an incredible mini-memoir of growing up on the internet of the 2000s by mariah eppes:
Notes from an Internet Girlhood
https://archive.org/details/notes-from-an-internet-girlhood/mode/2up#worldWideWeb #webPreservation #memoirs #furry #furcadia #neopets
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while i was doing some preservation work on Furcadia, just stumbled upon an incredible mini-memoir of growing up on the internet of the 2000s by mariah eppes:
Notes from an Internet Girlhood
https://archive.org/details/notes-from-an-internet-girlhood/mode/2up#worldWideWeb #webPreservation #memoirs #furry #furcadia #neopets
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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in case anyone wants warm memories of Furcadia's soundtrack by Team FAT, i recorded it from my Roland SC-55 a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvtZWw4g3E
flacs here:
https://vga256.com/music/Furcadia_Roland_SC55_FLAC-vga256.zip
mp3s here:
https://vga256.com/music/Furcadia_Roland_SC55_MP3_320kbit-vga256.zip -
in case anyone wants warm memories of Furcadia's soundtrack by Team FAT, i recorded it from my Roland SC-55 a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvtZWw4g3E
flacs here:
https://vga256.com/music/Furcadia_Roland_SC55_FLAC-vga256.zip
mp3s here:
https://vga256.com/music/Furcadia_Roland_SC55_MP3_320kbit-vga256.zip -
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/homeFurcadia 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?
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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/homeFurcadia 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?
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Furcadia: New Haven is now LIVE in #VRChat
Community Labs! Come explore what being a furry was like in the early 2000s (and where my fursona was made!) #furcadia
https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_22716357-510a-42f1-bfad-cfbf253c2e55 -
Furcadia: New Haven is now LIVE in #VRChat
Community Labs! Come explore what being a furry was like in the early 2000s (and where my fursona was made!) #furcadia
https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_22716357-510a-42f1-bfad-cfbf253c2e55 -
Portrait/icon for Kallie! #portrait #icon #anthro #commission #furry #feline #catgirl #furcadia
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For links to my other stuff: https://guttergoo.carrd.co/
For my fiance and I's comic project: https://www.deviantart.com/botc-comic -
Posted to Instagram: Some progress shots of my #furcadia #vrchat world. https://instagr.am/p/C8mAdkgOA4F/
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Posted to Instagram: Some progress shots of my #furcadia #vrchat world. https://instagr.am/p/C8mAdkgOA4F/
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Posted to Instagram: Some progress on my #furcadia world for #vrchat https://instagr.am/p/C8JE7OVOfIJ/
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Posted to Instagram: Some progress on my #furcadia world for #vrchat https://instagr.am/p/C8JE7OVOfIJ/
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By the 2100s, #SecondLife and #Furcadia will be historically relevant as formative works within the realms of Virtual Worlds and Modern Culture. (Furries will be the norm by 2100)
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By the 2100s, #SecondLife and #Furcadia will be historically relevant as formative works within the realms of Virtual Worlds and Modern Culture. (Furries will be the norm by 2100)
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POV: You're 14, you've just booted up the eMachines PC in the family room and you're about to meet so many dudes in their 30s that want you to give them your AIM
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really impressed with the depth that the author of this extensive article about the history of #UltimaOnline went into.
was glad to see that #furcadia got a mention, and that both kristin and raph were acknowledged as its original designers
some of the gameplay experiences i had in UO have shaped what #tomo is becoming. user-created/governed communities, player housing, and server sharding is a big part of that.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/17/1068027/ultima-online-oldest-metaverse/
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Hey cuties!! We're playing around in Furcadia for Dream Day where creators like me are showing off the worlds they made! Come check it out :D
This is the Dream I helped make, Primordia! The livestream is here https://www.twitch.tv/elsovalager
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Hanging out with a bunch of people on #Furcadia this fine #FurcadiaFriday :)
Come hang and say hi! We're in Naia Green in the cafe.
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Here's some #DigitalArt I did for #Furcadia this year!
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Hi! I'm here for #art #commissions but I also like to post/repost things listed under my bio "Topics" :)
90% of what I paint is #animals related - buut I do dabble in cool #characterdesign and #landscape s too!
I'm a long time #internet dweller, since the early 2000's on websites like #Neopets #Wolfhome and especially #Furcadia. I've seen the internet change a lot aaand now I sound super old. 😂
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Celebrating Furcadia's 26th birthday party today! Happy birthday, #Furcadia ! :ms_birthday_cake:
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More progress on the goth bar >:3
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just jamming out to the #furcadia soundtrack while i pixel art
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Posting these #furcadia flyers here to spark some interest for new/returning players!
Feel free to ask any questions about the game :)(Furcadia official art, not owned by me)
