12-year-old Sean Redden from Denton, Texas, was in an Internet chat room, playing a cyber fantasy world game. Suddenly someone entered the room, asking for help. The person said she was a Finnish business student who was locked in her college's computer lab. She said she was having an asthma attack and couldn't breathe. Redden wasn't sure if this was part of the game. However, as he later told the Dallas Morning News, he decided it was, too real to be a joke So Redden called the police. With the additional help of international phone operators, Finnish paramedics found 20-year-old Tara Laintinen and gave her the medical attention she needed. Without the Internet and the efforts of a 12-year-old boy half a world away, she might not have survived.
2.) It was just an ordinary Sunday night on a crowded subway car for Patrick Oberg, a 21-year-old web designer in New York City Then suddenly, the girl of his dreams got on his subway car But before he knew it the subway stopped and the beautiful, rosy. cheeked woman got off and disappeared in a crowd of people. Desperate to find her, Patrick came up with a unique idea. He created a website called NYgirlof my dreams.com. He posted a picture and a description of the girl on the website, in the hope that someone who knew her might see it and put him in contact with her A few days later, that's exactly what happened. Patrick and his dream girl, Camille Hayton, are now dating. But they have decided to take their relationship out of the public eye. Moberg posted this message on the website: "In our best interest, there will be no more updates to this website. Unlike all the romantic comedies and bad pop songs, you'll have to make up your own ending for this".