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
Dread Pirate Jimbo and I met at 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Supervenusfreak (who very rarely posts here anymore) and I met on 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).
there are alot of people that meet over the internet. The goal is to make it real offline. I usually go to match.com most of the time since i read the reviews here at FreeDatingHelper.com is for sale | HugeDomains and it sounds like there is real success there.
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.
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.
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!