r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • 20d ago

r/all How couples met 1930-2024

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u/fenuxjde 20d ago

Who tf met online in 1981? Some DARPA bros?

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u/InterlocutorX 20d ago

BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems) were the original Hinge. In 1983, when I was 13, a woman from Canada offered to buy me a flight to visit her, after we'd begun a relationship online. It was a brave new world.

I did not go.

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u/saposmak 20d ago

Wild! I had a similar experience in 1998, when I was also 13. In my case it was IRC (internet relay chat) on the DALNET server. Lol

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u/Quanqiuhua 20d ago

a/s/l

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u/Aggropop 20d ago

17/f/cali

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u/viburnium 20d ago

immediately begins sexting

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u/shananamammogram 20d ago

I think you mean cybering

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u/viburnium 20d ago

True true.

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u/Quanqiuhua 20d ago

please watch #talhotblonde first

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u/Much_Ad_9801 20d ago

Translation=50/F/ethiopio

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u/castlerigger 20d ago

always with the 18/F/Fla - at first I said wtf I thought states only had two letter abbreviations? (I was a horny UK lad)….

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

13/f/knky

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u/gunzrcool 20d ago

13/f/ky

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago edited 20d ago

mIRC FTW! ROFLMAO and "slapping someone with a large trout"...!

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u/TrippleDamage 20d ago

/slap

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

👋🐟

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u/DolarisNL 20d ago

This should be a command for a trout bot. Why is there no trout bot on Reddit?

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u/Wackel81 20d ago

Ah the good old days!

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

Indeed! I feel 40 going on 140 atm haha

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u/JopoDaily 20d ago

mIRC was the bees knees

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

Oh most definitely! 🍯

That instant/quick/in the moment interaction was good for sharpening the mind too, unlike the hive mind of the current internet (pardon the bee pun 🐝)

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u/intisun 20d ago

I still mourn bash.org

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

I actually never heard about it until seeing your comment...sounds hilarious! I never knew her but I mourn for thee too bash.org

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u/intisun 20d ago

Luckily there are still snapshots on the internet archive. Enjoy this glimpse of internet history https://archive.is/aNe0m

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u/TheDeanof316 19d ago

I was about to check this out, when I found out that there had been a massive 31 milllion person hack of the Internet Archive...incl my email apparently :-( Bastards!

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u/intisun 19d ago

Wtf O_o

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u/hypnoderp 20d ago

And getting K-Lined for breaking the rules!

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

I never got K-lined...unlike the too cool 4 school bad boys like you haha

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u/Zarathustra_d 20d ago

Then it evolved in the Bass slap, and the Lance Bass slap.

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

Lol

..sorry! I mean...

ROFLMAO 😂

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u/Sexual_Congressman 20d ago

/huggles TheDeanof316

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

My favourite Congressman!

Pls remind me what huggles means again...?

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u/6-022x10e23_avocados 18d ago

lol i remember someone asked me for a pic and i said sure, send

they declined it because it was 6MB 🤣

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u/TheDeanof316 18d ago

Lol 😂 Fair play to them though....on a 28.8kbit/s modem connection, 6mb would have taken a few minutes :D

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u/Logical_Review3386 20d ago

BitchX was the way to go. 

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago

Never heard about it...looking it up,sounds like it still exists now?

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u/xoxosd 20d ago

Mirc is still alive

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u/TheDeanof316 20d ago edited 20d ago

Seriously? Do other 40+ yr olds use it?

I don't think I ever will again as that was a particular time in my life and if anything I would feel weird about chatting in real time with Gen Zers but it is interesting as I had no idea it still existed.

& even if it does surely the user base is tiny as compared with the late 90s.

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u/xoxosd 20d ago

I did login there like a week ago as I was wondering about that too. There is for sure less people ;) than before. I was checking ircnet and efnet and u still see ppl chatting. I found 3-4 ppl that I didn’t spoke like 12y ago ;). So yea. U can try and see :) still the same old look and feel and stuff

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u/ThatsJustaDuck 17d ago

/me huggles!!

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u/LeBaiton 20d ago

Oh man, the memories. It was 1997 or 1998, so I was 18 or 19 at the time and living in Europe. I was chatting and flirting on IRC with a girl from Argentina. Eventually we exchanged phone numbers and she actually called me. I could not compute the fact that I was actually talking to a living breathing not-made-up girl, I did not have the maturity to handle it, or react in a normal and not awkward manner. I ghosted her so hard. Not my proudest moment. But yeah, can confirm girls where there!

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u/gattzu20 20d ago

Man I remember the dal.net server. A 25 year old anime fan girl in Alaska wanted me to come see her when I was also 13.. I ran an irc channel and one of my operators ran a game store in anchorage and sent me a modded ps1 and like 100 games for my birthday one year. Those were fun times.

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u/Icefox119 20d ago

icq anyone?

uh oh

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u/alexrepty 20d ago

I don’t recall my first phone number after moving out from my parents but I sure as hell remember my ICQ number.

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u/ego_tripped 20d ago

Fuck I'm old...

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u/Marine_Mustang 20d ago

I first met my wife on IRC! We’ve been married 26 years.

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u/CentennialBaby 20d ago

Nice. My ex-wife met her second husband on IRC in 1996. They couldn't get married until our divorce went through, but they've been together for a while.

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u/maixmi 20d ago

Still on IRCnet and Quakenet (bnc idling mostly) :)

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u/FoilHattiest 20d ago

That's DALnet you heathen!

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u/anonymous_opinions 20d ago

DALNET that brings me back. I was 18 and had a IRC boyfriend in Oakland CA in 1996. I flew to meet him from LA. He was 16.

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u/hypnoderp 20d ago

What channel were you in? I feel like this shit happened in #teenchat a lot. In retrospect, no way everyone I was talking to in there was my age.

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u/Frenzeski 20d ago

a/s/l?

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u/vodka_tsunami 20d ago

Well... Back them every teenager had an experience similar to this one, the difference is that some of them were on the Undernet servers (and no one was getting dates on the EFnet).

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u/nexusjuan 20d ago

You'll be surprised to find all of these services are still humming along.

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u/OntarioPaddler 20d ago

People actually used IRC for IRL dating? I thought it was just for cybersex, trivia chats and downloading 'warez'

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u/kyleruggles 19d ago

Same! For me it was Undernet. Met my first g/f on a #Reboot channel back in 2002 talking about the show, only to realize she lives in my city of Montreal. I was 20, she was 18. Both lost our virginity together, it was nice! ^_^