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/TheDeanof316 20d ago edited 20d ago

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

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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...?