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What is the definition of "online" for this chart? The first website wasn't even up until 1991, so how can the line start at 1980?
Grandpa was trolling DARPAnet for skanks.
If I wanted to be called grandpa I’d of stayed with your mom.
BBS'es and Fidonet through modem were there before the web.
Don't think many found each other on BBS's but at least they could download low res porn.
In the early 1980s, ASCII porn :) NSFW: GIRL82.TXT, ripped by Usagi Electric
i found someone via bbs in 1996, though we only dated a few months.
DoD nerds be fuckin'.
In my experience, the deeper and more academic you get in the nerd forest, the freakier people get.
University hosted BBS in 1989 here.
BBSes were a thing for decades before the Web.
The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) was started in 1985.
CBBS dates to 1978
Yup. My university had a fancy 16 line one.
It's a survey, so it relies on the surveyed to tell accurately the date they meet and how, so I won't be surprised that the line here is incorrect.
Or maybe they refer to using classified ads in the newspaper or over of those "romantic meeting agency" (I don't know the name in English, in French it is agence de rencontre) that existed back in the day
Phone dating?
I'm curious if that included classified and dating messaging services. Aziz Ansari has a good book where he interviewed people who met using those services back in the day, and were embarrassed to tell people that's how they met.