Met My Wife on AOL Instant Messenger

Posted by Ok-Lifeguard-2956@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 112 comments

The "original" online dating app.

This was in 2000, I was a Junior in College and she was a Senior in High School. (Although she did fib to me about her age initially)

I told this to friends at a party recently, and they were asking how you even met someone in the same city online back then.

I don't remember exactly how it worked, but I do remember there being "Chat Rooms" and you could DM someone you wanted to talk to personally. There was probably a "Santa Barbara Area" chatroom where we met.

Anyways, hadn't thought about this for a while and thought people's reactions were kind of funny.