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[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Congrats! My wife and I hit 21 this year... though we met in person, in a cage filled with vending machines.

Crazy to think she has been a contact on almost all of them, at least the main ones of the time AIM/ICQ/IRC/MSN/YAHOO...

[–] Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What sort of cage is that ??? Not in a zoo of course ??😳😳😳

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 39 minutes ago

Lol... Nah, there was an area at our high school with a row of vending machines, to keep kids from buying stuff outside of lunchtime they put two big sliding metal grates in front of them with a padlock on it. At lunch they would remove the lock and slide the grates in front of each other a bit and put the lock back on. It left us with a little cage with an entrance on each end.