Eupeptic wrote:Lol necroposting!
I'm about 99% sure the
concept was there on FurryMUCK, which I first got on in either the second half of 1991, or some time in 1992. There were a couple of vore-related rooms in there; I remember finding them and not quite understanding the idea at the time.
I don't remember if they specifically called it "vore", though.
As has been mentioned, Usenet is probably another candidate. alt.fan.furry would probably be the most likely place to look, starting in perhaps the mid to late 80s, or whenever it was new. Google has a Usenet archive but I haven't been able to make it work, lately.
Eupeptic
Hi. OP here. I did collect some additional research past the time of me posting this thread. To summarize the story as best I can: it seems that the term vore was almost definitely coined on the biggulp forums sometime in the mid 1990s (the site itself was founded in 1995, as per the news update here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010619011 ... _news.html .
Vorarephilia was also coined on that site, and the shortened form quickly took hold as the predominant expression for our kink since (probably because 4 letter words are just super popular in general with umbrella kinks: bdsm abdl, etc).
Before that, the community emerged from a hodgepodge of smaller subinterests in macrophile spaces, such as niche usenet groups. During the time previous to the coining of the term, vore content was usually described as 'swallowing'. i.e. vore stories would just be called 'swallowing stories'.
For an exact date, of the people I spoke with:
Llyander told me the first time they say the word vore was in 1998.
Strega gave a date of 1998 as their first encounter with the term and community.
the_Wolf reports finding the biggulp site in 1995, the forum coming online in 1997, and the term being coined sometime shortly after.
And perhaps most illucidating, a single archive.org archive of the biggulp homepage on 1998, showing the word 'vore' being used about 10 times:
https://web.archive.org/web/19981206090 ... links.htmlAs well, here is the about page for biggulp, captured in the year 2000, but likely not updated since it still uses the original 'swallowing' terminology:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001018114 ... -gulp.htmlAlso, another page showing an IRC group named 'swallowing' likely predating the vore terminology:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021215233 ... links.htmlFor fun, feel free to check out the forums on the big gulp site. It's kinda shocking how extremely petty drama-filled and spammy it is. Says a lot about how much modern moderation has improved. Also note they moved boards 3 times before the site went out, so here are links for each version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011025050 ... o=big_gulphttps://web.archive.org/web/20050405231 ... 1100302457