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I married a girl I met online. Our third wedding anniversary is next week, and it will be almost 5 years since she moved up here/moved in with me, after a 6 month courtship involving electronic communications and eventually a couple of weekend visits.
We met on IRC. Not in a channel intended for that sort of thing (well, one could argue that most IRC channels not intended for distribution of files are implicitly intended for hooking up with the opposite sex, but I won't go there), just a random chatty/friendly/flirty channel nominally centered around a version of a common party game, on one of the less busy networks.
Previously to that I met several people in a similar manner and ended up getting together for what amounted to casual sex. Or as casual as it can be after months of flirting and determining that we were, in fact, who we claimed to be and all that other stuff that comes with internet hookups.
It's certainly not for everybody, but it has worked well for me.
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