"Remember this is BEFORE the internet..."

Addition: Before a cellphone with camera in everyone's pocket, age

This may be around the dawn of Digital Cameras, but back then I used a Per-War German Film Camera in 35mm and took tons of Photos.

Yep, that's Phil. Haven't heard about him in ages. Hope he's doing well.

I'm friends with him on Facebook, but I haven't seen anything from him for about 4-6 months.

He's on FB, doing OK last I heard.

He's fine. Coasting out the plague. His boss caught it and there was a few days of seclusion but nothing came of it thankfully.

Too soon, man.

My Dad had a DARPA account and used the old Usenet, with the weird BANG addresses. But in those days I just had a 1200 BAUD modem ion a Macintosh Plus, and I would have to take my files to a DTP Shop in Cupertino. Half Traditional and half Apple Macintosh back then.

Yes i had a PC Pursuit account..

Used it to Telnet from Ohio to California to access my Netcom.com account to get the TinyFugue muck client.
Then telnet back all the way across to country to PA, to furryMUCK.

I love Phil. He's one of God's own super mutant prototypes.

Yes he does, with that college vocabulary, delivered with that country drawl. A true American Treasure.

Ah yesssss... con toons. When I was able to actively travel to cons I remember doing a number of them, my fav being the cartoon of a smiling cockroach saying "Kiss me Unca Kage" in ref to a certain charity auction back at the Adam's Mark days of Anthrocon

Heh. I do remember you scribbling away at C-ACE in Ottawa. Good times.

Yeah I remember that. I was volentold to run the Art Show so once we had shut down the show I would come out to the dealers and pull up a table and do freebee sketches to keep myself busy while waiting on Henbe, Max, and gNAW to finish up before we could head out.

As for scribbling away, its nothing compared to Max working furiously in the corner of the Dead Dog parties to get caught up on all his commissions at every con we ever went to. I swear the man is a machine when it comes to cranking out the artz

Max eats his Wheaties, that's for sure.

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This was the age of the F.I.D.O. linked FurryBBS's

FurryMuck was around, But you have to use UNIX, and type in the whole long address.

Wasn't FurryMUCk 1995, and this was earlier, in 1992, so while this was FIDO, days, connecting to BBS systems like Red October (a Gaming BBS) was difficult and sloppy at the time.

FurryMUCK was around for CF1. It is were i found out there was a furryCON happening from Lance Rund. All of 50 people who could be on at one time with out crashing the server.

The original version of FurryMUCK was hosted at North Carolina State University until mid-1991, when it was forced to move. A new home was found at the University of California at Irvine, where it resided until November of that year. While at UC Irvine FurryMUCK was limited to 63 concurrent users. In November FurryMUCK moved again, this time to a server at Carnegie-Mellon University. It remained there until September 1992, when FurryMUCK was deleted and had to be restarted (with the loss of considerable work) at the University of Toronto. Toronto proved to be only a short-term home, and in October 1993, after a call for volunteers to host the system, it was moved to St. Norbert College. This time the address proved to be more stable, and FurryMUCK remained at St. Norbert until 1999, when it was finally relocated to a dedicated server.

Thank you. Okay that's a lot clearer.

FurryMUCK was around, but knowing about it or being able to access it was quite the problem. You needed to have access to an UNIX account, which you just couldn't get if you were not a collage student. Not until Netcom.com and PC Pursuit came online could most people started being able to access furryMUCK.

I still remember fondly Jasmine DeKimba ringing up a massive $700 plus phone bill at the Hotel San Diego cause she was was logged on the whole time back in 1993 to Furrymuck. Then she and Merlino approached me, begging me to see if I could get that bill waved since I was on VERY good terms with the HSD staff. I just shook my head and said "Nope! This is all on you!"

I recall Mark had to cover the bill on his credit card.

Ah, the days of the $300 phone bills from the long distance calls to link up with the BBS..

connecting to Red October I could only swing 30 minute log ons.

My character has been present on FM since 1991.

serious Geek cred.

Yarr my character is old enough to be some of fandoms parents at this point. :)

And probably is. It IS FurryMUCK, after all. 😁

This one's really a cool, funny little strip. You capture the scene so well.

I was sitting on the other side of that table in the foreground as he was performing it with the crowd mostly on the other side of the beds, near the TV.

I can still hear Phil's voice doing that!! Pure comedy gold!

It was.

And the telly phone..