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Remember that feeling? User 10/23/18 (Tue) 23:04:03 No.52541

That feeling of talking to people you knew you would never meet? But kept that illusion that you will? Modem sweat. Modem darkness.

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User 10/25/18 (Thu) 01:57:54 No.52549

I remember the sense of discovery when the internet was taking off. Chatrooms etc felt like places where people went to talk, now the internet just feels like a bus stop or a waiting room, yeah we might be talking but it's not really why we came to wherever "here" is.

Perhaps it was the novelty to it, being able to talk to groups of people on the other side of the globe in an instant. Part of it was the fact that the people were there at all, that you could if you really wanted to, go and see them.

Part of the issue is that all we do is talk *about* things rather than *to* each other. You used to be able to just PM a person and talk to them, you can't do that now, it's seen as weird. You definitely can't do it on social media, that's like going up to a random stranger in the street and trying to talking to them, you'd be called creepy in an instant.

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User 10/25/18 (Thu) 02:06:35 No.52550

>>52549

Sigh, I'm too young to remember the very early web. I remember the first time I logged into a chatroom was around 2005, and it felt like pure magic. I could be whomever I wanted, talk to anybody without being a nerdy kid. Nowadays I hang around IRC and Discord a lot, and still talk to friends there. Haha, most of my friends are online, I'm not the biggest IRL socialite. I guess that's what happens when you grow up on the Internet. (I don't have a problem with this, honestly.)

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User 10/26/18 (Fri) 03:04:17 No.52558

I have had internet since 1999. Since the very beginning i used MSN. I used MSN until they killed it in 2013. And with that, all the people i knew vanished. Times where you had 3 different internet girlfriends and forums where taken very seriously. I was fat and i missed on meeting several people because i was afraid they would see me for how i really looked and would laugh. Still, i had a great time talking with them on-line. 5 in the mornings talks where you would be talking to various people while jerking off to hentaikey stuff.

But amidst all of that, something special had to happen. You met a girl, you were still fat but you always fantasised about meeting her and her meeting you. The years go by, friendship between the two grew, you played games with her, hurt her, but would always come back to talk to her, and she gladly and happily would talk to you.

One summer the pc breaks and you're left without any contact with her not any of the people you talked to. You spend the nights watching romantic movies thinking of her, realizing how much you wanted her. You were both at the end of your teenage years. Something inside you sparked a flame and got your shit together. Bought a new pc by the end of summer, told her you loved her and would meet her a year from then. You wouldn't say it was because you had to loose weight, but it was "important". The year goes by, you spend the nights and mornings talking with just 1 person.

Days and monthts go by, physical letters are send to each other, declaring their love as if they were on an English novel. By the end of the year you cannot wait any longer and tell her you'll meet her on christmas. You managed to get thin in less than a year for someone. You actually did something with your life.

And then you sit here, years and years down the road. You don't know anyone. You hate people and you can't forget her. Every day you remember her. Sometimes you wish you could hate her, some others you wish you could just remember how it felt hugging someone.

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User 10/26/18 (Fri) 05:14:46 No.52560

>>52558

Aw man, that sucks. I've never gotten into a romantic relationship online, and I'm not sure if I'd want to. There's so much that can go wrong, and so little possibility of success.

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User 10/28/18 (Sun) 17:14:37 No.52585

>>52558

And then you realise that she was probably fat too, and you really should have just met her.

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User 10/29/18 (Mon) 17:15:49 No.52590

>>52585

This x1000

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User 10/29/18 (Mon) 18:19:35 No.52591

>>52585

>>52590

Probably a man. Generally, people are hesitant to get in long distance relationships because its such a strain. Couples who have been dating for monthes break things off when people move (IE. kids going off to colleges). Women control the dating market under 30. So, a woman under 30 choosing to enter a relationship long term with no prior connection, is probably a man / fat / or both. And even fat women can get in person relationships.

You never know. What if you met girl and she was a woman, and fat. Would things have been perfect? Maybe she accepts you as is, you break up for a different reason, and you forewent all the self improvement you would have chased for years trying to make yourself marketable material. Maybe she would be fat, and you guys would settle for each other half happy, never improved. Maybe she was a man, and its good for you didn't meet her. Etc. There are really so many possibilities, how can you decide what the best decision was ? You can only guess.

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User 11/04/18 (Sun) 23:34:35 No.52676

>>52541

Nah. I went out of my way to meet them. I've met one person from /cyber/, 4 from /vg/ (one of whom I'm now living with), and a shitload from /k/.

It's been a wild ride.

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Nul 11/05/18 (Mon) 02:59:55 No.52678

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>>52558

You sound very similar to me, mang, very very similar.

I grew up in a pretty abusive home in the and my school experience was traumatic to say the least so in the late 90s I found "home" online. Cyberspace was the only place I ever felt safe and happy. I could be who I wanted to be and was limited only by my imagination. How they were such glorious days, exploring the edges of Cyberspace, a place built for the realization of dreams. I made so many friends and had perhaps hundreds on my MSN and every day I always had someone with whom I could discuss anything. My handle was the only thing necessary for our bonding and it wasn't "weird" to seek out and meet strangers to just experience it all together.

Anyway, if you'll allow me, I'll tell you a story of cyber romance.

I met my first love online. She contacted me on LiveJournal of all places. I remember all too well. She added me on MSN and said hi. At first I just took it as another one of an infinite number of interactions I'd had with others but she was nice and I gradually enjoyed talking to her more and more until we fell in love. It's weird you know because I was never even interested in women even back then, or even men in any sexual sense, but she swept me off my feet unlike any other.

She was such a kind soul, genuine, introverted like me. We both loved playing games and we played hours of Day of Defeat and Minecraft together. I forget who said it first but we started to say "I love you" to each other. Looking back with today's perspectives it would seem so silly but we were deeply in love. I went out of my way to remember everything about her and wanted to do anything to make her happy. She lived on the other side of the world so I'd stay up to ridiculous hours just to speak with her even for a little while, just to say that I loved her.

In any case, I was studying a course at the time and it was going well but I was sick with love. I'd never felt love before but oh boy did I feel it. As a pretty young person (I was about 18 or 19 at the time) I was also reckless and had very poor judgment, though. I felt as if I had to "act" on this and meet her. Not only did we plan to meet, but we planned to marry so we could be together (we needed to do it for the visa). So, I told her about how I was leaving my course and at first she was quite apprehensive and said I should have continued my course as I only had about a year to go, but I was stupid and insisted on leaving to be with her. I made a few plans and tied up a few loose ends and bought a ticket across the world. I'd never flown before so it was a whole adventure to me.

When I arrived I was sitting against a wall feeling the jetlag and I saw her in the distance. My heart raced and I felt a feeling I had never felt before in my life. She sat down next to me and we just sat close together in the airport experiencing this surreal moment. I was so flustered I forget exactly what we said to each other but we got on a bus and went to the station and then onto the train. The train carriage was pretty empty so when we sat together we passionately kissed over and over as the train moved to her city. I swear we kissed each other raw we couldn't keep our hands off each other. It was the most magical thing I've ever experienced in my life.

Our first night together we just lay in bed holding each other. There was no sex. We were too overwhelmed by it all. And I tell you now, even though she was an introvert and liked anime and so on, gosh she was so beautiful. I couldn't believe where I was and how I'd gotten there. So there we were together, feeling the warmth of one another in this apartment as it snowed outside. Even her family welcomed me as one of their own. I had never had a loving family so it was such an incredible experience to feel loved and supported by one.

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Nul 11/05/18 (Mon) 11:03:55 No.52688

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cont.

Anyway, we got married and in the beginning it was like a fairy tale. I was living in this new country and I'd never even been out of the country of my birth before. Everything was so magical that I can't even describe it. But I had no aims or plans. I tried to do this or that but for some reason I just couldn't manage to establish myself. I was young and stupid so my actions were probably misguided but in the end my PTSD and depression from the trauma of my childhood ruined everything. Slowly slowly the seams started to unravel and we progressively began to have more arguments, differences of opinion. I said and did ridiculous things that hurt her and I can never say sorry enough for how much I hurt such a wonderful and genuine human being.

I ended up returning to my country of origin and started to study at university again. We continued to speak on MSN but I was depressed and stopped talking to anyone. Depression is the worst thing. It sabotages everything you do for what feels like no reason whatsoever. She took my silence as a sign that I just didn't want to be with her anymore and eventually we filed for divorce. Around this time I think it was MSN was shut down and Skype took over as the main messaging thing. Facebook had also overtaken Myspace as the monopolist on social interaction on the Web. I no longer had anywhere to go and Cyberspace felt like a very different and alienating place. Chatrooms were effectively dead, everything was being consolidated and people used their "real" names online for everything. It had transformed from a dreamscape experience to an extension of peoples meatspace lives. The story continues and we met two more times over the years but it just didn't work out. I've had other relationships since then but I don't think I will ever feel the feeling I had with her ever again. I still think of her every day.

Even the "place" in which we met is no longer, having been desecrated beyond belief and while there are still some places like here in which I take refuge like an exile beyond the limits of the city, the place which I once knew, the place of discovery and exploration and hope is gone forever.

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