More to the point, when and where the heck was it?
This is in relation to another thread, and I have spent a good deal of time searching for the answer, but to no avail. Alas, it is late and I’m tired so I figured I could get the answer from a fellow doper.
Umm… First large one of the web-based boards, maybe. I know there were some smaller ones before, and that the AOL folks got together from time to time.
Lemme shoot this one over to MPSIMS and see what they have to say.
The first meeting of web Dopers was posted about on 10-14-99 in How Cool Is That? by ChrisCTP about her meeting with boli.
That set off a flurry of get together organizational threads that resulted in New York meeting on 10-18-99, Chicago and Houston both meeting in early November. I seem to remember a St. Louis meeting being arranged where several participants showed up but never managed to hook up with each other at the bar. Our (Houston) first meeting of more than two (Ayesha, LIONsob, Sealemon88 and beatle) had a slight problem in that we’d agreed to meet in the bar at Cafe Adobe and no one realized it had two bars.
My first meeting with another Doper was 10-30-99 when I met Cessandra at Rocky Horror.
I seem to vaguley recall Uke and Eve trying to set up a meeting of the two of them that for some reason didn’t go.