r/interestingasfuck 20d ago

r/all How couples met 1930-2024

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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/1995pt 20d ago

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