Meeting FIRSTers in Odd Online Places

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Dorienne Plait

A spoof off of Jeff's Meeting FIRST People in Odd Places thread, have you ever met a FIRSTer in a crazy internet site? Random chatroom? Tell of it here!

Does the FIRST chat room count?

I could never keep up with that room and all the people typing so fast and 5 different conversations going on at once. I remember Arefin trying to figure out who I was.

Actually I don't use my AIM account that often. Usually when I use it is when Elgin starts bugging me to turn on my AIM account.

BTW Arefin, if you're reading this, I am "ShelbyMstng289"

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I met my friend Nate on Livejournal. It was pimp. It was on the FIRST community, but still pimp.

[Billfred]

I am a moderator at a Pokemon message board. One of the mods there (well, maybe former mod--don't remember) was on a FIRST team around 2001 or so.

So he had the joy of the 4v0 game.

[nathanielreindl]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

I met my friend Nate on Livejournal. It was pimp. It was on the FIRST community, but still pimp.

Yeah. You spontaneously IM'd me. It was awkward.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Yah, I did that to everyone I saw on livejournal. You kow you feel loved.

I came to another one. There was this girl who I talked during an online camp reunion, who lives in Atlanta and was apparently a huge FLL & robotics person but her school didn't have a team so she just spectated. It was funky

[DCA Fan]

I met a person from ChiefDelphi on a Disneyworld board once. I think it was JosephM, but I'm not sure.

[Dorienne]

It's odd I found someone on BuddyPic. They just randomly PMed me saying "Oh I noticed you were into FIRST. Are you doing it this season?" Turns out he's got a rookie team in CA. No idea of the number though. Bummer.

[NoodleKnight]

I met a person from Team 176:Aces High on the Red vs Blue forums.

[shamuwong]

I met a guy on Team 100 on the Tippmann A5 paintball gun Owner's Group forum.

I met a bunch of people on this forum called "ChiefDelphi"...