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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by qingcharles on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:34PM (#37517576)
The biggest online dating site in the 90s had a minimum age of 13 o_O. I thought that was weird, even back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaker.com

Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by talldatethrow on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:49PM (#37517671)
I remember I was 14-15 on SparkMatch because I had to convince my mom to drive me 30 miles to a mall so I could meet a girl from SparkMatch. To this day I was the most out of my league girl I ever 'dated' (only kissed a few times). I soon acted too sweet and too lame and lost her. But it taught me a lot to always be cooler and I cleaned up in the coming OkCupid/PlentyofFish revolution, and doubly so by the time Tinder came around. I still think about that girl sometimes, which makes sense, because she was somewhat unique to be online constantly back in 1999-2000.