article_snippet: A couple who claim to be the world's first couple to have met online are celebrating 20 years together - after being among the first people to sign up to the first-ever internet dating site.
article_snippet: Bill and Freddi Strauss, from San Fernando Valley, California, met on a primitive Match.com, a few weeks after it was launched in 1995, and married three years later.
article_snippet: And now A couple who claim to be the world's first couple to have met online are celebrating 20 years of being together.
article_snippet: Bill and Freddi Strauss each Freddi Strauss are now experts at 'selfies', but when Bill and Freddi Strauss each met, online dating was a new phenomenon and Bill and Freddi Strauss each had to ask friends to help Bill and Freddi Strauss
article_snippet: each build an internet profile .
article_snippet: A couple who claim to be the world's first couple to have met online .
article_snippet: We're definitely one of the first ever dates and We believe We're the first date that turned into a couple,' said 72-year-old Freddi.
article_snippet: a couple quickly fell in love after meeting online .
article_snippet: After a week of messaging, the pair decided to start chatting on the phone and after another week decided to meet in person.
article_snippet: Partners through time:
highlights_snippet: Bill and Freddi Strauss each signed up to internet dating in 1995 .
  
highlights_snippet: Bill and Freddi Strauss each met on a primitive version of the dating website Match.com .
  