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Omegle<\/A> is a simple chat site that connects you to a random person, anonymously, for a conversation. That’s it. I saw it mentioned on the xkcd blag<\/A>, and my first thought was, “This is IRC 2.0,” but after reading some other users’ comments it actually sounds kind of fun. I like the fact that the Internet allows us to have a “meeting of the minds” with people we would otherwise never encounter.*<\/p>\n Even if you don’t check out Omegle, you should read the comments over on xkcd. They’re hilarious.<\/p>\n Stranger: hi <\/p>\n \n Omegle is a simple chat site that connects you to a random person, anonymously, for a conversation. That’s it. I saw it mentioned on the xkcd blag, and my first thought was, “This is IRC 2.0,” but after reading some other users’ comments it actually sounds kind of fun. I like the fact that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou: what was the last thing you googled?
\nStranger: the devine comedy
\nYou: not for school i hope?
\nStranger: nope
\nYou: oh good
\nYou: you would\u2019ve had a hell of a lot of spelling errors in that paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n*As long-time O*W*C members know, I’m particularly grateful for this aspect of the ‘Net, since Shadow and I met in an online chat room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"