Long story short I ended up going down an internet rabbithole of sorts tonight. From talk about The Lion King, to trying to remember the name of a particular TLK fandom site from the 00s, to trying to remember the name of another furry fiction site that I read a TLK fanfic or two on back in the mid-00s, to one of the first furry art sites I ever frequented (Pureyiff....don'tjudgeme), to remembering one of the first furry artists whose work I really, really loved- Mayra Boyle aka Huskie! And she's still active!
What a ride. Always nice to see when a furry artist from the 90s/early 00s is still active today instead of falling off the net completely, like so many seemingly have. Hell, even stuff in the early 10s are kind of old history now by internet standards, and I recently started following an artist who it turns out was born around the time I first started getting into the fandom. God I'm old...
Really takes me back though. You know how these things go- sure, it's a mixed bag, but sometimes I really, really miss those early days of the furry web. The internet was a very different place back then.
On a sidenote, I still can't remember the names of those two sites, dagnabbit.