Citations:fleshmeet

Noun: "an in-person meeting, particularly between people whose regular communication is exclusively or primarily online"

 * 1996 — Harley Jebens, "Web Browser", Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1996:
 * Eventually, the five characters get together in a climactic "fleshmeet" that leads to the Cyborg and Honoria falling in love in a moment of "color, truth and beauty."
 * 2000 — Sue Thomas, "Triandria: a story from The [+]Net[+] of Desire", in Inhuman Reflections: Thinking the Limits of the Human (eds. Scott Brewster, John J. Joughin, David Owen, & Richard J. Walker), Manchester University Press (2000), ISBN 0719053374, page 185:
 * 'Until we knew we would have to fleshmeet. And so one day I got on a plane and I was on it for a long time — ten — twelve hours — and now I am in this house.
 * 2001 — Amy Harmon, "In an Online Colloquy, an Absent Voice", The New York Times, 4 October 2001:
 * With 40 or so active participants scattered across at least a dozen states and three continents, and many more lurkers, members have organized two official group "fleshmeets," and several members have attended the opera together in various cities.
 * 2004 — Cynthia Jenéy, in Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era (by James A. Inman), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., Publishers (2004), ISBN 080584161X, page 128:
 * What alternately worries and amuses me is the astounding lack of innovative and radical thinking I see in both online and fleshmeet circles focused on computers & writing.
 * 2007 — Mark Amerika (with Amanda McDonald Crowley), "The Organizational Game", in META/DATA: A Digital Poetics, MIT Press (2007), ISBN 9780262012331, page 260:
 * Working online has its benefits, but the role of the fleshmeet is still pretty profound.
 * 2009 — Anna Kappa, The Accidental Pilgrim, self-published (2009), ISBN 9781449588670, page 467:
 * 'Juicy. This evening I'll have a fleshmeet with Twail, Jarl, Fuil and Ambassador Kaneril if he has arrived.