Furby is an American electronic robotic toy that was originally released in 1998 by Tiger Electronics. It resembles a hamster or owllike creature and went through a period of being a "must-have" toy following its holiday season launch, with continual sales until 2000. Over 40 million Furbies were sold during the three years of its original production, with 1.8 million sold in 1998, and 14 million in 1999. Its speaking capabilities were translated into 14 languages.
Furbies were the first successful attempt to produce and sell a domestically aimed robot. A newly purchased Furby, or a Furby which has been reset, starts out speaking entirely "Furbish", the unique language that all Furbies speak, but is programmed to start speaking English words and phrases in place of Furbish over time. This process is intended to resemble the process of learning English.
My childhood Furby was the 1998 Color Change Furby called Koh-Koh. I'm not sure why the pattern was named "color change" as it could not change colour!
Technically Koh-Koh was actually my second Furby. My first one was Christmas present but when I opened it didn’t work and had to be returned! I remember it was really difficult for my parents to find a replacement as Furbies were sold out everywhere that Christmas!
I’ve put together this page to document the original Furby website from the 90s as well as some of the old graphics and adverts I've found on the Wayback Machine.
Furby Website (1998-2003)
The Furby website featured FurbyLand with each building linking to a different page. The background changed from stars at night to clouds during the day. You can see screenshots and links to archived versions of both below.
✿ Furby toy or Furby spy? - An old BBC article from 1999 about the ban of furbies from National Security Agency premises due to fears they could record and repeat classified information!
My childhood Furby was the 1998 Color Change Furby called Koh-Koh. I'm not sure why the pattern was named "color change" as it could not change colour! 
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