T-Rex: Fifteen years ago people were first getting on the internet, seeing drawings of cartoon anthropomorphic animals, and going "okay wow guess that's what I'm into, LET'S DO THIS".
T-Rex: And that's how tons of people found out they were furries!
T-Rex: But it's ENTIRELY REASONABLE that if these people never got on the internet, they would've never DISCOVERED that was what they were into, never tripped over their own fetish like that. The depth and breadth of the internet has given us a hugely larger furry community than we'd otherwise have!
Utahraptor: So fifty years ago, much fewer furries!
T-Rex: EXACTLY.
T-Rex: Or more precisely: the SAME amount but undetected, even to themselves! This means there were ALWAYS furries, but they just need to be activated by seeing the right imagery. There's only one conclusion:
T-Rex and Utahraptor: SECRET FURRIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
Off panel: Lincoln?
T-Rex: Potential furry!
Off panel: Napoleon?
T-Rex: DEFINITE POTENTIAL FURRY.
Off panel: Oppenheimer?
T-Rex: "Now I am become furry, the yiffer of worlds" is, I believe, the gist of his famous quote