It was real - /dating/ used a 2-shot chat script, which is basically a series of primitive web chatrooms with a limit of 2 participants per room

It started on Heyuri because kuz found a script on a site that also had a 2channel script, so he assumed the "2" in ２ショット meant it had something to do with 2channel

However, we quickly discovered that they were actually used in Japan for initiating dates and hookups, and thus /dating/ was born

I can work on bringing it back if u want - this is the kind of thing that teh new server is intended for!