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The Online Date That's Too Good to be True
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Internet and M-Gons
In 1989, the pre-Worldwide web internet was still very much a niche activity. If you wanted to strike up a conversation with a fellow internet enthusiast anywhere in the world, that was easy enough. Someone at Drake University in Iowa Logged on to an Internet Relay Chat service and started up a conversation with a user at University College Dublin called M-Gons. Here's what happened when Drake met M-Gon.
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