XANADU.GIF

XANADU.GIF was responsible for introducing many to furry artwork, furry comics, and the furry fandom in general.

History
XANADU.GIF was a high resolution 16 color cyan-tone scan of the cover of Vicky Wyman's Xanadu #1. It featured Alicia (a unicorn) sitting on her throne in a very low-cut dress, with Tabbe le Fauve (a feline) and Felicia (a vixen) behind her in a kissing embrace. The comic title was cropped off, and the artwork was uncredited.

Propagation
When CD-ROMs were still fairly new and most hard drives were 40 megabytes or less, a number of publishers began pressing CDs of various ostensibly public domain software and pinup artwork for sysops (BBS operators) to offer for download. The CDs were attractive, as they held more than 16 times as much data as could fit on a 40 megabyte hard drive, and the files came with description indexes preformatted for most major BBS software.

As much of the content of these CDs was simply downloaded from other BBSes, copyrighted material frequently appeared on CDs, and many of the files migrated from one collection to all of the others.

XANADU.GIF appeared on numerous CDs of this type, and people would frequently ask about the source of the images in FidoNet echos and on larger multi-line BBSes such as Rusty and Eddie's.