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My wife and I met online in 1992. Not on a dating site; we were both posting to a Usenet group, alt.psychology.personality. She had posted that she was trying

My wife and I met online in 1992. Not on a dating site; we were both posting to a Usenet group, alt.psychology.personality. She had posted that she was trying to figure out whether she was a Five or a Six in the Enneagram system of personality analysis. My first words to her, in a private email, were "Well, do you have a bigger problem with depression or paranoia?" Ha! How's that for a smooth come-on line?? :-)

jacobush 9y ago
So which one are you - depression or paranoia? ;-)
- dsfyu404ed 9y ago
  You know what they say about crazy...
dogruck 9y ago
Reminds me of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0217krj http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0217krj
hi5eyes 9y ago
any site with a text field is a dating site
- Retra 9y ago
  That's not true for obvious reasons.
  - Waterluvian 9y ago
    You uh... want to tell me why not over coffee later?
    - HalcyonicStorm 9y ago
      I'd love to :D
      - ionforce 9y ago
        Nice screen name
- zaat 9y ago
  > site the year is 1992, the couple are posting to Usenet. What is this site thing you mentioned? Get off my lawn
  - stevekemp 9y ago
    The year is 1984, the couple are exchanging messages via a public CeeFax channel.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax Get off my dad's lawn ;)
    - rjsw 9y ago
      Ceefax was read only.
      - tremon 9y ago
        Not for employees: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnos.nl%2Fartikel%2F2102349-belgische-stuurde-jarenlang-geheime-berichten-via-teletekst.html&edit-text=_ https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
      - stevekemp 9y ago
        You could phone up and get your message(s) included in local pages. Also there were personals which involved writing your advert, and the ceefax service working as a PO box to route letters.
- stared 9y ago
  ...if you are creepy enough.
ReverseCold 9y ago
> Enneagram system Just googled it and found one to be surprisingly accurate for me. It may be one of those things that is so general it applies to everyone though.
rbanffy 9y ago
I'll one up you on that. I arrived early at a party my now wife was organizing and she put me to work preparing food. The knife I was using was terrible and she warned me about. After using it for a while, I casually commented: "I have much better knives at my house". OK, it was not the first thing I said, but it didn't scare her away ;-) BTW, I met my first wife in a chat room on a Minitel-like system.
autokad 9y ago
I feel like the article is confusing meeting someone online verses using an online dating website. the former is much more common than the latter.

jacobush 9y ago

So which one are you - depression or paranoia? ;-)

dsfyu404ed 9y ago
You know what they say about crazy...

dogruck 9y ago

Reminds me of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0217krj http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0217krj

hi5eyes 9y ago

any site with a text field is a dating site

Retra 9y ago
That's not true for obvious reasons.
- Waterluvian 9y ago
  You uh... want to tell me why not over coffee later?
  - HalcyonicStorm 9y ago
    I'd love to :D
    - ionforce 9y ago
      Nice screen name
zaat 9y ago
> site the year is 1992, the couple are posting to Usenet. What is this site thing you mentioned? Get off my lawn
- stevekemp 9y ago
  The year is 1984, the couple are exchanging messages via a public CeeFax channel.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax Get off my dad's lawn ;)
  - rjsw 9y ago
    Ceefax was read only.
    - tremon 9y ago
      Not for employees: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnos.nl%2Fartikel%2F2102349-belgische-stuurde-jarenlang-geheime-berichten-via-teletekst.html&edit-text=_ https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
    - stevekemp 9y ago
      You could phone up and get your message(s) included in local pages. Also there were personals which involved writing your advert, and the ceefax service working as a PO box to route letters.
stared 9y ago
...if you are creepy enough.

ReverseCold 9y ago

> Enneagram system Just googled it and found one to be surprisingly accurate for me. It may be one of those things that is so general it applies to everyone though.

rbanffy 9y ago

I'll one up you on that. I arrived early at a party my now wife was organizing and she put me to work preparing food. The knife I was using was terrible and she warned me about. After using it for a while, I casually commented: "I have much better knives at my house". OK, it was not the first thing I said, but it didn't scare her away ;-) BTW, I met my first wife in a chat room on a Minitel-like system.

autokad 9y ago

I feel like the article is confusing meeting someone online verses using an online dating website. the former is much more common than the latter.