Screw your question lil, I am curious about how this went for you. I was 12 at the end of the 90s, so wasn't too busy doing that much dating (online or personal ads), and sort of always assumed personal ads weren't really a thing people used (unless they were looking for a "masseuse"). Care to elaborate?I met my current long-term partner through a personal ad.
Thanks for asking, geneusutwerk. In Canada there is a "national" newspaper called The Globe and Mail. It assumed a fairly educated readership and became the go-to place for university professors to look for partners after it became no longer acceptable to date students, grad students, lab assistants, research assistants, and so on. I met a math professor who liked me a lot. I met a toxicologist (no kidding) who I liked a lot, and various polymathic men. I even posted an ad at one point that included the line "Looking for someone who has read a book" and "Looking for a man with a REALLY BIG vocabulary." The newspaper would include a mailbox # in the ad and then forward the letters that came in -- for only a month. I clipped the ad described in my blog and started to answer it, but put it aside as my step-father was dying and I was focussing on family. The night he died, I pulled out the ad again. My family had really come together for my mother and step-father. The experience was profound and I decided that I wanted to have a family myself (after being separated from a previous partner/baby daddy for about four years (four great years, mind you). I answered the ad, about 20 years ago, April 26, 1993. You can actually see us at the bottom of this blog.
Thanks for posting this as well as the post to the blog.