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Old 31st July 2008, 10:17 PM
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When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

With the AFF gathering on this weekend, http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/comm...3-a-12837.html (AFF Gathers: In Melbourne!! [1-3 August 2008])
I thought it would be interesting to find out when you was first time you met someone from the internet from a discussion forum.

For me it was March 2002 when I went to Townsville for a weekend and I had a few spare hours so I met up with someone I had met from the internet.

So when was it for everyone else. Maybe a FT or AFF gathering was your first time.

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Old 31st July 2008, 10:32 PM
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Re: When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

From memory, would have been having drinks with Lindsay Wilson on one of his trips to Perth (stevePER was there as well)
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Old 31st July 2008, 10:48 PM
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Re: When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

Interesting question.....

Can't say I've met anyone from a random web based source such as a public discussion forum.

That said, it'll be interesting walking into a room with 20+ people who I've never held dialogue with either in person or via the telephone.
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Old 31st July 2008, 10:58 PM
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For me it was the 2004 FT Xmas meet on Nov 30th; I met quite a few over 25 minutes and 3 HP's.

Easy to find at the designated FT corner - first guy I spoke to was thadocta (Hi Dave, sent any PM's to newbies lately)

I'd come across AFF/FT two weeks earlier; In July I had booked flights MEL-SYD and SYD-BNE (end-on-end) return flights for that evening, transferring though SYD. (back than MEL-BNE was 10 SC's in discount WHY), for ~ $115 each rt, also had upgraded to J [no restrictions on upgrading back then either])
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Old 31st July 2008, 11:50 PM
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Re: When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

For me it was at this year's FT AGM in BNE (Feb)
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Old 1st August 2008, 12:16 AM
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Re: When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

End of Dec 2007. Boonie Doon Golf Club, Sydney.
Met up with JohnK to hand over 100,000th post prize.
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Re: When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

Can anyone bet 1994?

Was at the dawn of WWW, I was still holding on to Gopher.

Oh the memmories, Using a UWA internet dialin that I "borrowed". Then the days of a simple "Hex" edit of an OZEmail install disk that would get you unlimted time to "signup" or perhaps do other things
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Old 1st August 2008, 04:24 AM
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My first meet-up wasn't a pre-arranged one. I met someone in a pub who I happened to have been chatting for ages with already on gaydar. This was probably back in 2002.
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Re: When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

Perhaps I was an early adopter (or i'm just old) but for me it was 1996

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Re: When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

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Can anyone bet 1994?
We'll be needing a who did you meet on FidoNet thread the way this is going

As for the WWW, Lynx was the first 'browser' I used!

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