T1 for Two
MOO wooing leads to wedding bells

Andria and Sean return to Vivaldi's Cafe in New York City, where they first met face-to-face after an online courtship. Sean later popped the question there. (Photograph by N. Bengiveno - Matrix)

ean Wolfe and Andria Fiegel lived in the same city but needed a computer to cross paths. The two originally met as characters on the LambdaMOO, an interactive, text-based virtual space physically located within a Palo Alto computer. It turned out that their online characters, vol and Biz, liked each other enough to get together, and Sean and Andria complied.

"We had dinner -- I talked too much -- saw a movie at the Angelika and had sorbet and espresso to finish the evening," Sean says. "Love at first sight? Not quite. But by the sorbet, I had shut up long enough to realize I was embarking on something significant."

They are in love and will trade wedding vows this July, two years to the day from when they first met -- in the real world.

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