yeah I really don't understand why he is embarrassed....

I think he doesn't want to be thought of as geeky.. that he picked up his wife through a computer...

My husband is also in Bellingham and I am in White Rock now. By the end of the month I will be living in Bellingham too!

ICQ was the first big messaging program that all my friends got into when we were in highschool. You HAD to have it. All I can remember is the annoying UH OH noise it used to make when someone messaged you.

We meet at Aerospace Camp (in ND) when we were fourteen/fifteen.

This one time, at band camp...

Oh wow..... ICQ.... that takes me back! I sheepishly admit that I spent WAY too many hours on mIRC! And it had it's own very annoying alerts and wavs. Those were the days

I usually used MSN messenger...

I changed the sounds because they annoyed me.. I used a toilet flushing sound for something.. can't remember what now.. I think when somebody signed on

Gene and I met in AT&T chat. I'd been chatting for years, and Gene was a newbie. He got a computer, internet, and AT&T chat was on his homepage so he stopped in one day... We both weren't looking for any romantic relationships. We chatted for 18 months before meeting. Forgot to mention this was in 2002. We delighted in telling people we met on the internet and not on a dating site either! Will admit people were very very cautioius, although they asked lots of questions, but that never stopped us from telling people. We believe it was fate.

I like this thread.. my fiance and my aunt are colleagues.. He then saw my picture in my aunt's desk and decided to go to the PHilippines...

My sister wanted me to use it because that was what she used to talk to her waste of space ex-boyfriend way back at the end of 2000. She was in high school although I already graduated. Maybe that also had something to do with it.

I think the reason why my husband and I met on it was that I changed my language settings to include German for a first year German class I was taking. I figured it couldn't hurt to speak to some native speakers. Let me tell you, I got so many Germans trying to talk to me, it was ridiculous. One of them ended up being my husband. He was drunk and bored after a party, not ready to go to bed yet, so he got on his friend's computer and started looking for random chat buddies. I came up. Then 2.5 years later, alcohol was at it again as the first real thing we did together after he picked me up and took me home was go out to a town festival and get shitfaced, and that was what pushed the issue. Alcohol, crazy old bats, ICQ, folk culture festivals near the Belarussian border in Lithuania. Yep, that's how we met.

Before ICQ, I used AIM a lot. Now I don't use messengers too much except to talk to family. I mostly reserve my blah and internet time wasting on forums.



Tell him to come to VJ and be a geek like around 70% of the rest of us.

We met in person, but it was at a meet-up for a travel site I post on. The poster who organized it was his best friend of about 30 years, and she brought him along. That was in 2003, and there was a bit of mutual attraction that neither of us acted on (or realized was mutual) until last year. He did register a handle on the site right after I went home, though, which is how we stayed in touch with each other for the intervening years.

Met in-person in Ghana during my visit there.