m1rr0r dash |
03.25.2008 11:47 PM |
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Originally Posted by Kegmama
I was thinking about something... Now its a common thing to start a 'relationship' online. People have supposedly found love on the internet. Has anyone made a best friend online? Or, established an actual meaningful e-friendship?!
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my parents ... pioneers of total geekdom that they are, met "online" in the mid-sixties. they were both grad students at Penn, home of the Eniac and other vacuum tube based computational devices. some geek who wanted to get laid wrote a "match-maker" program so all the other geeks could input their info and find a date. apparently the vacuum tubes told my parents that they should make me, very likely the first ever product of an e-lationship.
my real parent:

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