When chat rooms were first taking off some time in the 90s, I thought it was ridiculous that people could become "friends" with people they "met" online. It seemed silly to me.

In the late 90s and and early 2000s, I had a number of friends that were really into IRC. When it came to file sharing, I got that part. I did not get how they became so attached to the people they "met" on there and how they seemed to… Read More