# Our First Time

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For the Bruno Mars song, see [Doo-Wops & Hooligans](/source/Doo-Wops_%26_Hooligans).

***Our First Time*** (**OFT**) was one of the first widely popularized Internet [hoaxes](/source/Hoax). Eighteen-year-olds "Mike" and "Diane" made a public announcement declaring their intention to lose their [virginity](/source/Virginity). The event would be broadcast live on ourfirsttime.com, so visitors could share the "experience".

OFT, which promoted itself as a free public service educational website, followed Mike and Diane day by day from July 18 to July 21, 1998, through [HIV](/source/HIV) tests, condom selection, and telling their parents about their decision. So many millions of people attempted to view the site that the server crashed. [The Internet Entertainment Group](/source/Seth_Warshavsky) agreed to host it in exchange for links to their pornographic content.

Over time, some began to suspect it was a hoax. Mike and Diane looked older than 18 and appeared to be actors. "Mike" turned out to be Alabama actor Ty Taylor, and "Diane" turned out to be Michelle Parma, a former [Dallas Cowboys](/source/Dallas_Cowboys) cheerleader.

The enterprise fizzled when IEG backed out after the producer, [Ken Tipton](/source/Ken_Tipton), revealed that his plan was to make money by charging Internet users $5 each for "age-verification" but planned for the couple to decide to abstain on the day set for the deflowering.[1]

## References

1. ["Web's Virginity Event A Hoax, Company's Executive Says"](https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/07/18/webs-virginity-event-a-hoax-companys-executive-says/). *Chicago Tribune*. Tribune News Services. July 18, 1998.

## Bibliography

- "Web's Virginity Event A Hoax, Company's Executive Says", Chicago Tribune, July 18, 1998.
- [*Our First Time*](https://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/our_first_time/) at [Museum of Hoaxes](/source/Museum_of_Hoaxes)
- "Cyber Hoax"[\[1\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20041118095554/http://onyx.he.net/~hotmoves/LIC/hoax.html), H. B. Koplowitz, 1998.

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