May 15, 2008

How online dating began

It seems that the internet has been with us for so long now, that it is almost impossible to think of life without it, but can you imagine how hard dating must have been in the 1960’s? Well surprisingly it was in the year 1965 when two Harvard students created the first computerised dating agency.

The creation was called Operation Match and they charged $3 per person, each member would have to fill in a questionnaire that had around a hundred and fifty questions on. These would be like ideal partner etc.

The answers where then transferred to an IBM punch card and fed into an Avco 1790 computer, this then crunched the data around for little while and produced the matches which were then given to the member.

The business was sold three years later for a $1 million.

Source [Io9]