The "Hello my future girlfriend" thing actually has a real sad story behind it. The original site featured a real italian boy who was talking about how he wanted to meet other girls his age. He had tons of real pics of him biking, walking around, in a pool, and so on. He was called Faeelani or something like that. The website said that he wanted girls to email him so that they can talk. He said stuff like "maybe you and your family can come to Italy and we can hang out and go see movies!!", stuff like that.
Until..
Until the police raided his house, where it was found that the boy was actually a sex slave used by his parents in a plot to lure little girls to their house where they would be kidnapped and sold in another country. His parents were part of some sort of big gang that traded slaves and sold them to other countries.
I remember getting the original link from either irc or portalofevil.com back in 1996 or 97. We all laughed at how fruity the kid was. Then a few weeks (months later?), someone in the irc channel I used to hang out pasted the link from a news site in europe talking about the police sting. We kinda freaked out since tons of clones poped up since. My memory is somewhat Foggy, i'm not sure if he was italian or rather Romanian. Anyways..
It was really fucked up in retrospect. I hope Faeelani is doing well now
edit: Other internet legend, two irc guys:
1- Ripper, who did an overdose live on irc and his webcam while his mother was cooking in the kitchen down the all, his last word on irc being "I told you I was hardcore". He asked people on irc what he should take. He had a big piles of various pills and drugs. People thought He was joking and that those pills were fake. Peopel kept saying "take two of the those, and 5 of those blue ones!", which he did, live thru his webcam.
2- The guy (I forgot his nick) who said he was going to haxor the lamp post that was bothering his sister at night. He was on irc talking about he was going to haxor it and own it that night. Two days later, his irc friends learned the new. He electrocuted himself on the wires. It was ironic, since his nick was.. Sparky.
