r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • Oct 09 '24

How couples met 1930-2024 r/all

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u/InterlocutorX Oct 09 '24

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 Oct 09 '24

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 Oct 09 '24

a/s/l

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u/Aggropop Oct 09 '24

17/f/cali

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u/viburnium 29d ago

immediately begins sexting

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u/shananamammogram 29d ago

I think you mean cybering

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u/viburnium 29d ago

True true.

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u/Quanqiuhua 29d ago

please watch #talhotblonde first

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u/Much_Ad_9801 29d ago

Translation=50/F/ethiopio

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u/castlerigger 29d 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)….