How Heterosexual Couples Met (From /r/DataIsBeautiful)
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The Internet didn't exist before 1989, so how could you meet someone on it in the 80s? Even if they count the ARPANET as the internet, the 1980s figures are still ridiculously high considering how few people used it.
Edit: According to this: https://www.computerhistory.org/internethistory/1980s/ there were about 10K hosts in 1987. Let's be generous and assume that there were 10 users/host, that's still only 100K people online in 1987, so the 1980s numbers are definitely bullshit. That's without even taking into account that the overwhelming majority of those users were male.
Good point. The sample size is only 6519, so maybe the 65 people who met online in the 80s were the study authors and their friends in academia.
They may be including services like AOL and Compuserve, both of which existed in the 80s.
Maybe some phone based services? Don't know too young for ti.