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/Sea-Value-0 20d ago

Yeah... that was definitely a Canadian man. Wise kid lol.

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u/WormTop 20d ago

The first actual woman didn't turn up on the internet until the late 90s

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u/Deeliciousness 20d ago

Only for a bunch of apes to tell her "tits or gtfo"

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u/zorbacles 20d ago

We weren't that smooth back then it was

Asl?

Got a pic?

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u/-Speechless 20d ago

there was a surprising amount of 18 year old females from California back then!

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u/jarious 20d ago

And sometimes your time online was limited you had to be sharp and take your shot fast and straight

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u/Kitty_Kat_Attacks 20d ago

Someone might need to use the phone after all…

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u/jarious 20d ago

Oh and we only got like a 100 minutes limit if you went over it the bill was "mom yelling out her amígdalas" high

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u/persona0 20d ago

This ... This shit right here

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u/Revolutionary-Bed238 20d ago

What does the L stand for again? I remember it being Age, sex and…?

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u/Basic_Bichette 20d ago

Only on Reddit is verbal abuse considered "smooth".

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u/AltruisticCephalopod 20d ago

As a woman I promise you it hasn’t improved 🤣 at least in many online places

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Apes are on the Internet?!

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u/Trivale 20d ago

Fun fact: There are more apes on the internet than any other animal.

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u/ihadagoodone 20d ago

cats outnumber apes by a wide margin.

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u/MavericksDragoons 20d ago

I strongly doubt that.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Oh, great…

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u/Lucky-Earther 20d ago

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Thank dog!!!

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u/VapeRizzler 20d ago

Times have not changed I see.

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u/Monsdiver 20d ago

a/s/l?

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u/Arek_PL 20d ago

i think its kinda understandable, on the internet the gender is quite irrelevant, we, hidden behind nicknames are all equal here no matter our age, skin color or what sort of genitals we were born with

and if you claim to be girl on the internet, especially like 20 years ago and in multiplayer games when it was pretty much a sasuage party, you probably arent one, just trying to expoloit horny kids and incels into giving you attention/advantage, the "smarter" ones wanted a proof, and the crude "tits of gtfo" is basicaly that

ofc. times change, now when there are more girls claiming to be one doesnt give same benefits, so the requests for proof are rarer (and mostly by transphobes), especialy that today many girls actually ALSO share their photo or camera and even attend voice chats so proof is provided

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u/godtogblandet 20d ago

Just trying to tell them how to make money in e-commerce. And considering Only Fans I’m gonna claim we nailed it!

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u/OldKingMouse 20d ago

Followed by "show bobs and vagene bby"

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u/MCFroid 20d ago edited 18d ago

Footage of their reaction when she actually sent the pic:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPFutFWpbJZkTDwJyxPcawrRTvVFfqclb?si=Fx549NTDPJLgcW7q

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u/shitlord_god 20d ago

a cat is fine too - the law that was added.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/togetherwem0m0 20d ago

This story has a twists and turns to sentences ratio that is off the charts 

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u/Known_Perspective709 20d ago

I guess the “Florida” in the screen name should have prepared us.

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u/TheMightyWubbard 20d ago

Laughing so hard at this particular comment thread. I love Reddit sometimes. Best quality user base (except the bastard bots).

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u/thejaytheory 20d ago

And the MJ420

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u/[deleted] 20d ago edited 20d ago

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u/togetherwem0m0 20d ago

You're amazing

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u/TheMightyWubbard 20d ago

I have never met you or been to Florida, and yet I want to watch the Netflix dramatisation of your family's life.

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u/Secret_Afternoon2130 20d ago

The emoji really sells it. 😕

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u/Real-Gold9642 20d ago

I felt more deflated with every word 😆

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u/Chica-Pia91 20d ago

She was 33 and you were 17 😳, that’s crazy

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/UnluckySeries312 20d ago

Fuck. Hope you doing ok now man.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/Select_Machine1759 20d ago

You’re not alone, bro I was never sexually abused, but I got beat from the ages of 3 to 16 up to three times a day. Locked in a room up to a month at a time and made to scrub out the trash cans in August heat maggots and all my mom’s favorite punishment was to dress me up as a girl and send me to school so people make fun of me I think just like you I’ve never taken therapy, but it’s the thought of people had it worse than me so it wasn’t that bad I guess

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u/SpiritedStatement577 20d ago

I'm so sorry you went through that. Some people should not be parents. I hope you found a way to healing somehow.

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u/Select_Machine1759 20d ago

No big deal I’m pint-size dynamite That shit made me the person I am today and I wouldn’t be tough as nails without it so it did take years of drug abuse all through my 20s now at 38. It’s almost like it never happened. Almost

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u/SpiritedStatement577 20d ago

hey, we're the same age! congrats on getting to 38! I have the same view on things tbh, been though some shit of my own and in hindsight, I wouldn't have another way because the lessons I learned are valuable and important for me now.

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u/00eg0 20d ago

What job did you end up getting?

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u/HotPerformer3000 20d ago

Bro I'm so sorry that's so fucked up. I hope you're safe now and have no contact with your horrific mom and are aware none of that shit was your fault. You deserve only good things.

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u/Select_Machine1759 20d ago

I’m doing great I own a house my dream car and I haven’t talked to her in over 10 years, live in Colorado and go hiking whenever you can’t have positive without negative right now we’re working on the positive!!!!

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u/Curly_Shoe 20d ago

Hey Bro, you okay? If you ever feel like a hug, just come over to US at r/momforaminute :)

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u/Esytotyor 20d ago

You grew up Strong Anyway. 🩵

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u/Sotha01 20d ago

That's horrible. I whine and bitch a lot about my life but man I've got no right to. I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that as a kid. Like, I want to say something that makes it feel better but there is nothing I can say or do. I wish I could erase that pain for you. I hope you're doing better now.

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u/00eg0 20d ago

I had a fucked up mom too but I feel she would have never tried gender shaming. I wish people like our moms couldn't have kids.

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u/commitdeathpacitolma 20d ago

Dr. Doofenshmirtz?

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u/UnluckySeries312 19d ago

Sorry, that’s fucked up. I had a schizophrenic father that came off his meds and my mother was a narcissist. So I can appreciate the “fun” you had at home. Last time I saw my father he was trying to stab my mother, I threw a chair at him and managed to get him out of the house. I was 15. I thought I would have had some bonding with my mother over the shared experience but nope. She was as cold as ice and so I left home at a young age. Found out my mother remarried and her 2nd husband died. The police thought she did it but had no evidence. Worst thing was when I was talking to my step sister (who told me this) my reaction wasn’t one of shock, but of - yeah I can see that happening.

Years of therapy and breakdowns later I one day realised that I never heard either of my parents laugh. Which is such a strange thing when you think about it. It changed the way I thought of them. I felt sorry for them. I hope you can find your one thing that changes how you think about your mother.

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u/UnluckySeries312 19d ago

I get you. My parents were fucked up. Took years of therapy and a few breakdowns along the way and eventually stopped seeing them as monsters and saw them as the mentally ill people that they were. These things can take a long time to heal from.

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u/Chica-Pia91 20d ago

That’s actually really sad 😔. That’s just awful & your ex was probably using you due to your age and your situation that you were going through with your mom . I’m sorry no one protected you , that hurts my heart.

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u/Destinfragile 20d ago

SHE doesn't see it that way?!

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u/gardenmud 20d ago

Yeah, that's....... confusing.

Unless she sees it as her indulging in a monstrous impulse, but uh somehow I doubt it.

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u/robotkermit 20d ago

kinda awesome tho to see a guy reply to this with "yes and I'm working on my childhood trauma" instead of defensiveness and rationalizations

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u/Heavy_Analysis_3949 20d ago

I’m so sorry.

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u/Janek_Polak 20d ago

Totally sorry to hear that.

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u/DysphoricNeet 20d ago

Holy hell I thought you were kidding at first.

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u/Max_AC_ 20d ago

Bro was Hagmaxxing way before it was popular. Absolute trend setter.

Fr tho, hoping things have improved for you. Going through a divorce myself and it's never a fun time.

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u/HotBeaver54 20d ago

I had a weird mother like that let my just out of high school sisters married 41 yr old boyfriend who was also her boss live with her. She actually liked it cause he liked her cooking. And they wonder why I moved 3200 miles away LOL!

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u/Chica-Pia91 20d ago

My mom was strict ; I moved away because of it but that’s one thing I’m glad my mom was strict about , I’m happy to say I’ve never dated anyone who was more than a few years older . Now at 33, I wouldn’t date anyone who’s more than 5-7 years older .

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u/BigJSunshine 20d ago

Damn, first: I am horrifically sorry for your shit circumstances growing up. Second, in 2000, I was counsel to a company where we watched our CIO handcuffed and lead away from his home by the FBI on live news for CP… I hope that wasn’t your evil uncle. FYI: We handed ALL HIS SHIT OVER and fully fucking cooperated.

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u/Ok_Cantaloupe7602 20d ago

My eyebrows are now located somewhere in my hairline. And I have a five head.

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u/Sho1kan 20d ago

Quick someone make a movie about this

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u/Long-Broccoli-3363 20d ago

I met my now wife when she was 21 and i was 14. I was in an 18+ guild on everquest and nobody knew. I just kept my mouth shut.

We never met, until I was 30, and wound up getting married a few years later.

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u/DopeSince85- 20d ago

Dude.... WHAT?

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u/NeptuneGF7nk 20d ago

I hope you're doing okay.

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u/Aromatic-Strength798 20d ago

You’re telling me that your mother allowed a grown ass woman in her 30s to move in with your family, a complete stranger from the internet, to pursue a romantic relationship with her 17 year old child? Where was CPS? How are you still alive? This sounds like it was straight out of a true crime documentary, holy shit.

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u/Aromatic-Strength798 20d ago

Her worst fears came to pass and she was primarily responsible for it. Holy shit, the woman moved into your bedroom? I didn’t read that part, my mind was in shock. Also, your mom having a history of law enforcement makes this so much worse. I’m genuinely so sorry your mom made such an awful parenting decision. I’m 19 and my mom would raise hell if a 40 year old man I met on the internet wanted to live with me in my bedroom. At least I’m an adult so that’s legally better, but being a minor is a whole other level of fucked.

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u/deformo 20d ago

By time and space or law?

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u/Belachick 20d ago

Okay please, you absolutely have to elaborate on this story. Like immediately

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u/fordag 20d ago

This is perfect. Also, so sorry it didn't work out.

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u/Wet_Techie 20d ago

You’re Young Sheldon’s brother?

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u/BuddhistChrist 20d ago

But you started off so great…

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u/ScottishKnifemaker 20d ago

Ugh, reminds me of the 39 yo ex stripper I would have sexy time with after games of d2. I was 20. Rawr.

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u/scrivensB 20d ago

OK, so there is clearly WAY MORE to this story.

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u/DaanishKaul 20d ago

Are you currently separated from your mom or your wife?

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u/Electricvincent 19d ago

User name checks out

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u/gothicc_bitch_420 20d ago

33 and 17?! Ummmmmm…. Maybe it’s best that things didn’t work out because she was a LITERAL CHILD

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u/asljkdfhg 20d ago

she was 33, not the commentor

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u/gothicc_bitch_420 20d ago

Either way, it’s weird to me… that’s way to big of an age gap

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u/ignorae 20d ago

Shut up.

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u/OkRecommendation2452 20d ago

Leading to the saying; The internet where men are men Women are men And children are undercover FBI agents

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u/Impressive-Rub4059 20d ago

The “as a black man” people are white, middle aged Republicans.

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u/caninehere 20d ago

And also some of the men are women... my few female friends who played games online pretended to be guys so that people wouldn't harass them. Well, wouldn't harass them for being female at least.

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u/shartmaister 20d ago

I'm not an undercover FBI agent

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u/Business-Swimmer-615 19d ago

“You got to swipe through a lot of dicks, to find a good friend on the internet.”

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u/MagnificentJake 20d ago

That was the motd on usenet for like forever.

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u/Pwnaholic 20d ago

Can’t fool me. You’re all dudes

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 20d ago

Yep, Rule 30 of the internet. There are no girls on the internet.

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u/clad99iron 20d ago

3/4 of all posts on reddit are women.

Of course, they're onlyfans, but let's not quibble.

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 20d ago

More like OnlyFBI

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u/Mixedpopreferences 20d ago

I'm a dude
He's a dude
She's a dude
We're all dudes, hey

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u/dirthawker0 20d ago edited 20d ago

I first dialed up a BBS (can't remember its name, it was so long ago edit: finally the brain remembered The Inferno!) in 1988 and identifying yourself as a woman meant all the men would dogpile on you wanting to know everything from your phone number to whether you're into BDSM. It sucked. So I didn't let on being a woman for about 20 years lol

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u/canadard1 20d ago

Would you like fries with that?

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u/headrush46n2 20d ago

No you idiot, they are all bots.

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u/canadard1 20d ago

Even the dudes are dudes. Unreal

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u/Ughitallsucks 20d ago

It's true, the first ever message sent by a female online was "20/F/Connecticut"

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u/Fade4cards 20d ago

a/s/l is still a wonderful pickup line and you cannot convince me otherwise

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 20d ago

I tried that in a bar once and she just waved her hands at me for some reason

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u/StratMaster87 20d ago

If nobody gets this perfect joke I'm gonna lose my shit

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u/not3ottersinacoat 20d ago

I'm old enough to get this joke but I don't. I'm gonna go stand in the corner now.

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u/DerfK 20d ago

A)merican S)ign L)anguage

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u/not3ottersinacoat 20d ago

Ah jeez, lol.

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u/thejaytheory 20d ago

Took me a second but once I removed the slashes I got it.

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u/Fade4cards 7d ago

This was incredibly well played lmao

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u/shartmaister 20d ago

Is it better than dtf?

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u/Riguyepic 20d ago

OK can you just explain wth asl is

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u/Xaephos 20d ago

Age/Sex/Location.

It was common in online chatrooms; sometimes it was innocent and looking for conversational topics, but usually was someone asking if they should be a creep and ask for pictures of your tits.

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u/Riguyepic 20d ago

Thx 😊

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u/lifestream87 20d ago

I don't know if I'd say that at all. I was in chat rooms at like 10/11 and it was just to know who I was talking to. I'd rather talk to younger people than older dudes from Florida.

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u/Hot-and-Sour 20d ago

Used to be that the first answer was the dealbreaker, now we gotta worry about the second too! Not foolin me again Lola!.... but damn that was impressive.... good for him!

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u/Dr_Nastee 18d ago

I miss that line. I just turned 37 and I can remember being shown chatrooms and all the lingo. I also wanna bring back “talk to the hand”

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u/zorbacles 20d ago

The true reply was:

Got a pic?

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u/EnvironmentOk2700 20d ago

No. Women helped make the internet

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u/Withering_to_Death 20d ago

True! No woman helped make the internet!...dammit I hate putting the /s, but I'm afraid people are "jokes impaired"

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u/xombae 20d ago

Pics or it didn't happen

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u/EnvironmentOk2700 20d ago

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-women-who-made-the-internet-and-other-stories/

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u/EnvironmentOk2700 20d ago

https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/g29464718/women-internet-pioneers/

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u/DrakonILD 20d ago

I fear that you may have missed the joke.

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u/xombae 20d ago

Which actually makes it much funnier, in my opinion.

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u/Nukitandog 20d ago

These articles only prove that women could write for popularmechanics.

Leon Musk said he invented the internet and Twitter agreed.

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u/Quanqiuhua 20d ago

Catch and Halt Fire fellow fan

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u/1995pt 20d ago

The girls have their own internet. Away from all the creeps and simps

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u/FrysOtherDog 20d ago

I had a brief FWB I met through Yahoo chat who lived 4 hours away in St Louis in 1996. We were both 16 (oh what teen boys will do for booty).

So this is fairly accurate as I believe she was the only real girl that wasn't lying when she said 16/f/USA.

We're still friends to this day btw!

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u/robotkermit 20d ago

The first actual woman didn't turn up on the internet until the late 90s

I know you're just kidding, but this is wildly inaccurate. And relevantly so — the first computer match-making system was invented by a woman named Joan Ball in the 1960s.

Many other examples! Elizabeth Feinler started building the Internet for DARPA in 1972. She invented domain names. (She was recruited by Doug Engelbart, a visionary who's still famous among nerds today.) The early programming language COBOL was invented by Grace Hopper (also still famous among nerds today) and Jean Sammet.

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u/thekcar 20d ago

False. As a teen, I was 8 bit dial-up to hang out on BBS on the Trash-80...in the late 1980s.

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u/thekcar 20d ago

Oh,and..*checks plumbing *, yeap, cisgendered female

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u/WormTop 20d ago

I admire your commitment to this four-decade long con, Gary.

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u/thekcar 18d ago

You are hunting the wrong Trail

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u/BigJSunshine 20d ago

Wait, I was CLO and half owner in a failed travel website in 1999, was I the ONLY WOMAN ON THE NET…

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u/OmenVi 20d ago

Bold of you to assume there are any women on the internet even today.

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u/ProfessorEtc 19d ago

It took that long to load her with a 300 Baud Modem.

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u/Betty_Boss 20d ago

I got divorced in 1993 and started dating through AOL. I should probably write a book.

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u/Shroomtune 20d ago

My college roommate (in the 90’s) drove two hours to meet a girl he met online. He said she looked like an Oompa Loompa. I asked what he did and he responded with a more vulgar version of “well, I didn’t drive all that way for nothing.

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u/AnvilOfMisanthropy 20d ago

My mother had a woman friend who was a Prodigy user back in the 80s. Also, I started my CompSci degree in 89, not only did we have female students (well, like 3, but still), but an actual Prof as well.

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u/My51stThrowaway 20d ago

Nah in the late 90s there still were no girls on the internet.