Blaze@reddthat.com to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 months agoHow heterosexual couples met in the USfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1imageHow heterosexual couples met in the USfiles.catbox.moeBlaze@reddthat.com to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squareBlueLineBae@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoWhat 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?
minus-squarejballs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI’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.
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoGrandpa was trolling DARPAnet for skanks.
minus-squareBeigeAgenda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoBBS’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.
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIn my experience, the deeper and more academic you get in the nerd forest, the freakier people get.
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?
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.
Phone dating?
Grandpa was trolling DARPAnet for skanks.
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.
DoD nerds be fuckin’.
In my experience, the deeper and more academic you get in the nerd forest, the freakier people get.