Before the Internet, this wouldn't ever have happened

I've complained about the net off and on but there is one thing that it does really well and that's allowing people to connect on virutally anything. What I mean is that no matter what your hobby, idea, fetish is, there is always someone else who you can chat with. Before the internet existed, making contact with those people was incredibly difficult. Now, it's not easy, but it's certainly not as hard anymore.

So, with that said I direct you to the story of the guy who traded a paperclip for a house. Sure he may have been able to do it w/o the net, but I bet it would have been majorly hard to do...