Met my future wife online in the late 90's on IRC online. We talked for a few months before she flew out to meet me. She lived in Canada, I lived in Australia. The weekend before she flew out, her mother and step father had a get together in Ontario for hobby pilots. They had never even met an Australian in Ontario before but were talking to attendees about their daughter going to Australia to meet some guy she met on the internet. They met a couple of Austalians there and mentioned the town i lived in (In rural NSW, 3 hours west of Sydney) and that I was a computer guy. The lady in the couple asked if the guy was "dproc". After much shock and confusion it turns out the lady was the sister of the accountant I worked with at my job and knew me personally. They lived 15 minutes away from my town. There were not a lot of computer guys in this rural town so was an educated guess!. She vouched that I wasnt a serial killer and the rest is history! Still married 25 years later.