[ih] Love affairs on the very first virtual communities ?

[Guy Almes]

   In Standage's "Victorian Internet", there's a nice chapter on a pair 
of telegraphers falling in love and marrying.  If memory serves, they 
first met (physically) on the day of their wedding.
   This may or may not be what Vincent had in mind, but it was 
definitely pre-Minitel. ;-)
	-- Guy

On 8/30/13 4:26 PM, John Day wrote:
> May have to be careful on that one.  ;-)  They may still be a sensitive
> issue.
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> In the ARPANET days, I heard some rumors, but my lips are sealed.  ;-)
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> At 10:39 PM +0200 8/30/13, Vincent Glad wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'm a french journalist for Les Inrockuptibles (a cultural magazine).
>>
>> I'm working on a paper about the story of the "online flirt", and
>> especially about the period before the web.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> 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 ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>> Vincent Glad.
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