<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi everybody,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm a french journalist for Les Inrockuptibles (a cultural magazine).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm working on a paper about the story of the "online flirt", and especially about the period before the web.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My investigation begins in wondering if there already were love affairs, on the very first virtual communities before our french Minitel (such as the Community Memory, Usenet, BBS or even, why not, the Arpanet)<br>
<br>Have anyone already been studying this specific matter, or could anyone direct me to a research worker who has been working on it ? Otherwise, do you know any witness of the time who knows his topic, especially a Community Memory's user ?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks in advance,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Vincent Glad.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div>