When Was The First Time You Met Someone You Met From the Internet

[Flashback]

For me, it was serfty, and many an ale was consumed. Then Dave Noble the next evening. I was in Sydney for CeBit as we had a stand there.

 

[Mal]

I met quite a few ladies from online chat programs like Yahoo Chat!, ICQ, MSN etc around 5-8 years ago. Was often an interesting experience

I think the first time I met any AFF'ers was a QP Meeting in Brisbane in 2006. I've also met quite a few through lounge meetings, combined flight plans, FT social events and recently the AFF meet up in MEL.

 

[Evan]

I first met people from a talker called 'forest' run out of UTS all the way back in 1994 i think...
Not long after the web gained graphics
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[JohnK]

I think the first time I met any AFF'ers was a QP Meeting in Brisbane in 2006. I've also met quite a few through lounge meetings, combined flight plans, FT social events and recently the AFF meet up in MEL.

You were the second person I met from AFF. It was at ADL airport when it first opened and I was on my way to PER and you were going to the Barossa Valley for the day. That was in early March so must have been a few weeks after the FT AGM in BNE.

 

[oz_mark]

You were the second person I met from AFF. It was at ADL airport when it first opened and I was on my way to PER and you were going to the Barossa Valley for the day. That was in early March so must have been a few weeks after the FT AGM in BNE.

Interesting, was this the day ADL opened. I flew out of ADL that day.

 

[JohnK]

Interesting, was this the day ADL opened. I flew out of ADL that day.

No. I flew ADL-PLO return from the new terminal/airport in mid-February but the majority of the flights were still from the old terminal.

 

[taswegian77]

i had the pleasure to meet forum member Shane in SIN F lounge last Saturday night. Thoroughly enjoyed our chat with my work colleague there as well.

 

[Warks]

I think I might hold a record here... I've been on the 'net since 1994 and I can't recall meeting ANYONE. Not that I don't think you are not all the greatest bunch of people! I also post on a few other forums (a lot more than here) and I've never met any of those people either. Never really had an opportunity or if I had I couldn't make it to a get-together.

Internet 1994-95
I was a dedicated Mosaic user! I remember watching that icon waiting for pages to load, and waiting, and waiting...

Winsock - another memory. I can't recall the email program but where I worked we had an internal 'email' or instant messaging system called 'Flash' - the message used to arrive and be 'read' in that endearing computer voice.

 

[simongr]

This is the playground....Do tell

Sorry - been distracted for the past week.

It was a TV discussion forum - age range from say 17/18 thru 30's. Most of meets involved large amounts of alcohol and consequently for some of the members relationships were formed/not formed/broken etc. Equally everyone got very much involved in people's personal lives, formed alliances etc. etc.

All a bit wearing and as people then interacted more directly the interaction online reduced.

Personally I tend to avoid increasing the interaction that much - for example even those forum members here I interact with on msn I still refer to mrssimongr as mrssimongr even though they have seen the details of a PNR that has full names of all pax travelling...

Ah the joys of teen angst as experienced by people in their 20's...

 

[anat0l]

First time for me was February 2007 during the FT AGM in BNE. I was in the 'Bronze' category for attending when I realised that my return flight from PER would touch down fairly late and it seemed that as a QFF-NB-no-QC there was no way I was getting in. Or so I thought.

First lesson about FT/AFF: when an event is on, the thread is updated rapidly on that day/previous day. I was checking FT at PER airport awaiting my plane to depart, when I realised someone would guest me in and there would actually be people still there (the last flights would soon be after my arrival, though). So I posted back on the AGM thread at around 12ish PER time, gave a rough description of what I was wearing and told someone to meet me at the arrival gate in BNE with a sign with my user handle on it.

That's when I met the first person from AFF or FT. JohnSydney2000 (FT) and Mal was there holding a printed paper with "Mr anat0l" on it.

Second lesson about FT/AFF: if someone is waiting on you, try to get the most forward seat in the cabin that you possibly can, lest they almost believe you were never on the flight.

I met about half a dozen members in the BNE QC FT corner (I believe including Shillard (FT) and Bundy Bear; goodness help me remember the rest) and had a glass of white + some little nibbles whilst showing off the pilfered little bottle of red wine (Langmeil Shiraz-Grenache-Mourverde) I had pilfered off the plane from free drinks service. Soon after, people had to catch their flights home as well as the last Airtrain, and I hurried to the carousel before someone could start to suspect that my lone bag could possibly be a threat to national security.....

 

[Mal]

That's when I met the first person from AFF or FT. JohnSydney2000 (FT) and someone else was there holding a printed paper with "Mr anat0l" on it.

That would be I. Quite a funny thing to do, and many strange looks from other passengers ensued! I'm just upset the QP didn't have A3 printers so we could have made it bigger. Perhaps the photocopiers have A3 pages in them for next time