Any Late 90s or Early 2000s Chatroom Stories?

Minestrone101 · 2023-10-03T06:51:07+00:00

It was the time of AOL, AIM, Irc, ICQ, Yahoo chat rooms and other public forums. Did you befriend anyone that was anonymous and far away? Did you fall in love ? Did you ever meet your online friends ? I used to get along really well with people in Yahoo chats from Colorado and Alaska in 2000 for some reason. I used to stay up late, and although we all had the technology to exchange photos, we almost never did. We did ask asl a lot (age, sex, location - funny enough, it's something that's that's displayed in most social media profiles now). At age 20 I took a liking to a 17 or 18 year old woman who turned out to be 15. lol She was supposedly psychic too. haha I was on the first version of the dating app Okcupid in 99/2000 when it used to be one long page and everyone just had a 2x2 (5.08 cm) inch box that we could write a headline and a 2 line blurb. there were dozens of profiles (like a wanted or personal ad column in the newspaper) in each page . also no one posted pictures yet. Friendster was still new and Facebook and MySpace didn't exist. Interesting times. I met someone on Okc - Nancy. She was a single mother in New Jersey. Technically Jersey is barely 2 hours away from me. It felt very far at the time. We chatted on AIM for 5 years, never met, and never exchanged photos. lol. Good times.

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Minestrone101

November 2023

@VidH That's a poignant premise! I'd watch that!

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Any Late 90s or Early 2000s Chatroom Stories?

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