jonny (good kind) on Nostr: My labmate had never heard the truth that "furries run the internet/develop all ...
My labmate had never heard the truth that "furries run the internet/develop all critical infra/etc." And it got me wondering how that came to be. Has anyone written like a cultural history of how furries came to concentrate in sysadmin roles and whatnot? It could be that theres no story it just is that way, but I wonder if there were notable examples of like "a team at Bell Labs in the 1960s were all furries and..."
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