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[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

10 years out and I believe it! What I’ve heard of the apps now is swipe garbage. They didn’t often read profiles back then, I’m not sure you even can now

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am so incredibly grateful that "meeting on the Internet" was still a bit weird when I met my wife. I just missed the whole Internet dating thing, and there were no smartphones/apps.

I would be utterly lost, today.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I had a uni lecturer who had a wife he met online in pre 96. That was genuinely weird! Meeting Boyo online was more a matter of: we’ve been at all these same gigs and know the same people, how the fuck have we not met without the net?