Ancient Web: Yerf Rescued Fifty Thousand Furry Artworks

Part of the Ancient Web Collection. In December 2004, an online art community discovered the difference between having a website and having a backup. Visit the Yerf Historical Archive. Yerf began in 1996 as an all-ages furry-art gallery and community, originally known as the Squeeky Clean Furry Archive. The archive's own account says the original system suffered a devastating disk failure in December 2004, with no official backup available. Individual users, however, had saved copies of material, and those scattered personal collections became the basis of a reconstructed archive. A revived Ye

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