I talked to a chick online over the Christmas season in '95, thinking it was a funny, harmless little thing. She was from Southern Cal, I was living in Lancaster OH at the time.
One weekend in February '96, completely out of the blue, she calls me at work (I'd never, ever spoken to her on the phone before) and tells me she's in a motel in Columbus waiting for me to come and see her!
I decided what the hell and wound up going to the motel to meet her. We had sex for 72 hours straight, then she flew home. I ended the relationship when I, for lack of a better term, told her I thought she might be a bit 'out there' and was 'looney toons.'
I related all of this to a guy I worked with at that time, who was amazed that there were actually freaky nymphos like this on the Internet. I told him which chat room I met her in and he started logging in.
He ended up moving to CA and married her later that same year.
I've also driven to East Lansing with a bud to stay in a dorm room at MSU with a chick that he met online, that relationship never went further than wild weekend sex too. I have had opportunities to get involved in relationships with a girl from Plano, TX and another from Ocean City, DE, but I never pursued those.
A lot of people knock the Internet dating thing, but it's really quite simple to fall into it without even efforting. I mean, you're in a chat or on a message board, and before you know it it just happens. I never got online with the intent of meeting chicks, but it happens.