They did not meet on the internet. She wrote him a letter, snail mail. Was the internet even in full swing 10 years ago?
THEY MET ON THE INTERNET. You don't know what you're talking about.
The Internet was indeed up and running then, I was active from early 90's on, first on Prodigy, then CompuServe. Lived through the first of the two Clinton regimes only because there was a place to go to acquire some sanity. This was before we had FR, of course.
Rush was on CompuServe years ago. Not before the internet, but before HTML.