Furry Code
a.k.a. The Code of the Furries, FurCode
Author: Ross Smith
Date:
Tags: #character, #furry
Furry Code (“The Code of the Furries”) is a self-ID code for the furry fandom.
Though the final official English version of this code was published in 1998, Russian fans translated the code to Russian independently. Version 1.4 appears only in Russian, credited to “Sandy (Fox) Lazevsky” (“Росс Смит, Сэнди Фокс Лазевски”). Later, Ambidexter observed differences or concerns in that translation, leading to a decoder labeled “Furcode 2.0” linked from Livejournal and furnation.ru.
Examples
FRM/R4 A+++ C+++ D++ H+++ M+++ P++++ R+ T++++ W Z++++ Sm++ RLCT a+ cn++ d++ e+ f++++ h+ j iwf+++ sm
FG[Kai norn]2admr A C>++ D H+ M++ P R+ T W- Z- Sf+ RLCT a23 cnl++++$ d++ e++ f h+ iwf++ j- p- sm+
Details
Inspirations (3):
Successors (2):
Inspired (13):
- AB/DL Code
- Comic Geek Code
- Critter Code
- Daria Code
- GargCode
- Lion King Code
- OtherKey
- Ranger Code
- Watership Down Code
- Were Code (Blackfang)
- Were Code (SabreLion)
- Werewolf Code
- Zoo Code
Found on:
- alt.fan.furry (newsgroup)
- alt.lifestyle.furry (newsgroup)
- alt.binaries.pictures.furry (newsgroup)
- alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.furry (adult, newsgroup)
Linked from:
- At least 80 signature codes (more info)
- bdaverin's Exhausted Signature File Code Collection (archived 2003-02-04, more info)
- Critter Code (archived 2001-10-27, more info)
- DataPacRat's Code Mirror (more info)
- Goth.Code Homepage (archived 1999-11-17, more info)
- Marїnais' private echo (Russian, more info)
- Robin Powell's Code List (more info)
- Orion Scribner's Directory of Geek Codes (archived 2016-06-24, more info)
Articles and Pages:
Known versions
Version 1.0:
- Specification: alt.fan.furry (canonical)
- Specification: www.datapacrat.com (mirror)
- Decoder: sig.codes (1.x)
Version 1.1:
- Specification: alt.fan.furry (canonical)
- Decoder: sig.codes (1.x)
Version 1.2:
- Specification: alt.fan.furry (canonical)
- Specification: www.io.com (mirror, archived 1999-02-24)
- Specification: vilaa.neocities.org (mirror)
- Specification: www.fortunecity.com (translation, German, archived 2001-06-26) - "Deutsche Version 1.1" based on Furry Code 1.2
- Decoder: sig.codes (1.x)
Version 1.22:
Version 1.3:
- Specification: www.captainpackrat.com (canonical)
- Encoder/Decoder: www.andrewgillard.com
- Encoder/Decoder: www.furcode.de (German)
- Encoder: winterwolf.co.uk
- Encoder: www.furrycode.com
- Decoder: mj.ucw.cz
- Decoder: winterwolf.co.uk
- Decoder: www.furrycode.com
- Decoder: sig.codes (1.x)
Version 1.4.russian:
- Author: Sandy (Fox) Lazevsky (Росс Смит, Сэнди Фокс Лазевски)
- Specification: nzdr.ru (translation, Russian) - Requires Cyrillic encoding Windows-1251
- Specification: ecode.lapin.ru (translation, Russian, archived 2005-04-26)
- Decoder: sig.codes (1.x)
Version 2.0:
- Author: Ambidexter
- Decoder: tooncop.info (translation, Russian, defunct, archived 2025-02-08)