I don't know anyone on this forum, but I had a friend who had a website and all of his friends would go on the forums. It was a way for him to keep in touch with everyone, because he had moved away from where he grew up. So he knew everyone on the forum in person, and I knew some of them. The weirdest thing is interacting with someone on a forum for months, and then finally meeting them. That happened to me a few times. Now everyone uses Livejournal, so the forums are dead. Kinda sad. End of a era.