Lipitor11 Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Like mid to late 90's? All I remember was Yahoo chat...
carhill Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 I used American Singles and Yahoo singles in the mid 90's (~1996>) and met my exW on Matchmaker in early 1999. Yahoo got sold to Match the same year we got divorced (2010). IIRC, dating.ru and lavaplace were around back then, in addition to a number of other Eastern European (FSU/CIS) sites I used when dating internationally. Some were dating sites run by agencies; others were online portals for peer-peer interaction.
Mangina Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 I don't believe so, I didn't find out about online dating until 2006.
angel.eyes Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Match has been around for two decades. One of my work friends met her husband on Match in 1995. Another met his wife in 1998. E-Harmony started a couple of years later.
Tayken Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 You do realize that the world wide web came into existence in 1991, and right after that dating wasn't exactly the first popularity of the web. There were chat forums in the 90s, and people met that way exchanging pics by email I know I met 5 ladies this way back then
angel.eyes Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Actually the internet had been around since the early eighties...
Mr Scorpio Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 You do realize that the world wide web came into existence in 1991, and right after that dating wasn't exactly the first popularity of the web. There were chat forums in the 90s, and people met that way exchanging pics by email I know I met 5 ladies this way back then Or that there were local, multi-node bulletin board systems where people could chat with others who lived w/in the same area code.
carhill Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 There were also some grass roots dating newsgroups before http stuff really took off, in addition to loosely formed IRC 'rooms'. IIRC, the first dating partner I met that way was through a IRC portal and we'd 'chat' on ICQ and e-mail audio clips and quick-time clips, something relatively new back then, since everything was, for the average person, dial-up and slow. Most of the women I dated had WinTel computers so their audio and video functions were pretty limited back then. I had already been making videos and digitizing them and had an early digital camera so it was easier for me. The main reason for all this seemingly difficult interaction was due to distance. Most of the women lived 1-5 hours away so it wasn't easy to just meet up whenever. It had to be worked out. Things certainly have changed.
Mr Scorpio Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 IIRC, the first dating partner I met that way was through a IRC portal and we'd 'chat' on ICQ and e-mail audio clips and quick-time clips, something relatively new back then, since everything was, for the average person, dial-up and slow. Quick time clips? At 2400 baud? That gives new meaning to "I'll see you tomorrow!"
carhill Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Actually the internet had been around since the early eighties... Yep, I used an early version of it, connecting to other universities when in college, in the late 70's. In our area though, it didn't seem to become evident and talked about until the early-mid 90's. I didn't buy a modem and get a dial-up account until '94, even though I had been using computers for a number of years at that point. I had been dating locally, using what we called 'phone dating' with ads published in the newspaper, and transitioned to OLD/IRC as those options became known to me. Quick time clips? At 2400 baud? That gives new meaning to "I'll see you tomorrow!" Yep, get it started and go to sleep.
Art_Critic Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 In the mid-late 80's I used to use the phone dating/connections and the ads in the newpapers.. I think the section was called the personals. In the early 90's I did some match making deal that used videos and they matched you up, no internet but they did go online after the internet became more user friendly.. I didn't really find any true relationships from those.. mainly people who you would talk to, meet up and never see again. I was married in the 90's and didn't start using online dating like Lavalife and others till about 2001.
taiko Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 You do realize that the world wide web came into existence in 1991, and right after that dating wasn't exactly the first popularity of the web. There were chat forums in the 90s, and people met that way exchanging pics by email I know I met 5 ladies this way back then I would have thought it would have come second, right after porn.
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