# We met on our computers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 2, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124 "2003-01-02T00:43:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/21 "2003-01-02T15:06:09Z")
Happy Anniversary! Way back then, it was pretty odd to meet someone from online. Heck, even a few years ago it wasn’t as accepted as it is today. As **lel** mentioned, **Weirddave** and I met through the SDMB. **Hamadryad** and **Tark** met on a BBS. Hama’s screen name has been old enough to drive for a year now, and Tark’s is 22. Yup. They’s OLD 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/22 "2003-01-02T15:15:22Z")
**Dread Pirate Jimbo** and I met at [loveataol.com](http://loveataol.com). We’ve been married for almost 6 months now (Feb. 24 is our 6 month anniversary). You know, at first I was a little reticent about telling people we met over the net, but I’m 36 years old and really don’t care what people think anymore. There may be some stigma attached to it still, but I just don’t acknowledge it. And I think we did get together mostly because of the net - he’s not much of a phone talker and is very quiet in real life, so we were able to avoid those difficulties by writing back and forth. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/23 "2003-01-02T15:21:49Z")
Mr. Pol & I met via our college’s e-mail system (VAX) and will be celebrating our 10th anniversary this year. My username is almost ready for it’s drivers’ permit (14 last fall…) ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/24 "2003-01-02T15:25:10Z")
Sigh - I was better at punctuation then… \*\* its \*\* and **driver’s permit** in my previous post. ---
**Author:** ![christymystery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@christymystery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/christymystery)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/25 "2013-08-05T07:02:57Z")
These messages are quite old. Is anyone still in this thread? I am looking for couples who met online, wondering if there are any marriages that have lasted longer than my husband and I - today is our 29th wedding anniversary. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/26 "2013-08-05T08:26:47Z")
While this is considered a ‘zombie’ thread, I do know that **Airman Doors** is still a current poster, though I don’t know if he is still married. I did meet my wife indirectly through SDMB. Another user had started a thread asking that we critique her profile on okcupid. I went there but was unable to see her profile without joining and creating a profile of my own. Once done, the site suggested **Pixilated** as a potential match in my neighborhood. We exchanged a few emails, met at a local bookstore, and the rest, as they say, is history. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/27 "2013-08-05T20:00:39Z")
I met **Fierra** on here and the old IRC #sdmb channel. We’ve been happily married nearly 11 years, through bad and good, through an entire gender transition fercryingoutloud, she has steadfastly been my foundation and my joy. We’re planning to have a renewal of vows, maybe next June. Finally I will get to wear the long white dress and she can wear the black suit (seriously). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/28 "2013-08-05T20:51:19Z")
My fiance and I met on the site OKCupid in September of 2011. We exchanged messages for about a week and then had our first date. The wedding is in five days. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/29 "2013-08-06T01:16:56Z")
My husband and I met on FidoNet, and have been married since April 1995. Congratulations and best wishes, ITR! Hope the wedding stuff isn’t too stressful. Remember, if you finish the day married, it was a success. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/30 "2013-08-06T02:40:50Z")
**deedeeknowit** and I met on a _Buffy_ board. Been together 11 years now, married 9. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/31 "2013-08-06T02:46:23Z")
Congratulations, everyone! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/32 "2013-08-06T03:36:32Z")
**Supervenusfreak** (who very rarely posts here anymore) and I met on [Gay.com](http://Gay.com) about 10 years ago and we’ve been together since shortly after that. We just had our 10th anniversary last weekend. I can verify that **Weirddave** and **Ginger** (neither of whom posts here anymore) are still married, as are **MsRobyn** and **Airman Doors** (who are both still posting here at least occasionally). ---
**Author:** ![MrMillion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@MrMillion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMillion)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/33 "2013-08-06T05:01:32Z")
there are alot of people that meet over the internet. The goal is to make it real offline. I usually go to [match.com](http://match.com) most of the time since i read the reviews here at [FreeDatingHelper.com is for sale | HugeDomains](http://www.freedatinghelper.com/reviews/match-com/) and it sounds like there is real success there. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/34 "2013-08-06T05:07:36Z")
I met my husband on alt.atheism on Usenet (and I suppose also talk.origins, where he was crossposting from initially.) I moved continents and we’ve been married for 10 years so far. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/35 "2013-08-06T10:11:48Z")
I just think it’s interesting how in the OP from 2003 meeting “on our computers” was considered somewhat remarkable, even here on a message board. I think it is much less so now, and will be even less so in the future. And yes, congratulations everyone. I love happy ending relationship zombie threads. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/36 "2017-08-21T06:48:11Z")
Hi, Y’all! I hadn’t known about this thread before just now, but I decided, after not being able to sleep, to see what **Peggy/Zoe** had been doing here that I wasn’t in on before. I’m tossing around in my head the notion of starting up a thread here, or elsewhere, to be called “Peggy’s Blue Skylight” which would be a gathering place for all of Zoe’s friends and acquaintances to renew a relationship or start a new one in her honor. **This rendition of [Seamus Blake’s version of the Mingus tune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20DDzHpNlU) could be her theme song.** Until ideas have taken shape here for an eventual launch (perhaps) of a devoted web space to carry forward the memory of Zoe, and since this thread had just been siting here for all these years, would you folks join me in batting some ideas around on what this idea might develop into? In honor of **Zoe** to be sure! If this idea has any wings, I’ll be inviting people she and I have know over the 31 years we shared until her passing this month. The day of the eclipse ought to reason enough to do so now! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/37 "2017-08-22T12:06:53Z")
Any memory of **Zoe** needs to include the Stern Look, with which she threatened me on several occasions. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![wickky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@wickky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wickky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/38 "2017-08-22T17:05:17Z")
MarkofT and I met on the internet and will be celebrating our **19th anniversary** this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/39 "2017-08-22T20:59:47Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Any memory of **Zoe** needs to include the Stern Look, with which she threatened me on several occasions. > > Regards, > Shodan It was indeed a forceful glare. Back a dog off a meat truck! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124/40 "2017-08-23T00:30:53Z")
Rest peacefully \*\*Zoe \*\* And please glare when one needs it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-met-on-our-computers/146124.md?page=3)