The Internet is a masquerade ball in cyberspace

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Everyone was protected by a mask of anonymity that hid their true identity. Was that a gorgeous blond women you just had cyber sex with or was it really a man? You had no way of knowing. Someone even developed a game on the Internet of trying to "unmask" the other person in order to find out what was real and what was fantasy. Let's continue in this mind set: If the person you met in a chat room sent you a picture, was the picture real or fake? There was no way of knowing what was real and what was
fantasy without actually meeting face to face. So people started asking to meet. Often this was done over the phone in order to learn something about the other person. Actual meetings were usually in public places. Sometimes one person would show up and hide just to see the other person. "Can we meet at the mall and look at each other across the atrium" might be a typical request for this kind of encounter.