“Your business is our pleasure. Your pleasure is our business.” This was the slogan hung outside a Harvard dorm room in 1965, marking the headquarters of the first computer matchmaking service in the ...
Long before Hinge or Tinder, early computing took finding your perfect match to a new level. Associate Professor of Data Science Mar Hicks, and author of "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order ...
Sweden's moves toward a cashless economy may offer lessons for what the U.S. will deal with in the future. But now let's take a trip into the past. With Valentine's Day around the corner, we dug into ...
Back in the 1960s, a couple of Harvard students had an idea. From Radio Diaries, this is a look back at the creation of the very first computerized dating service. Looking for love is an art, not a ...
This Philadelphia Couple Has A 50-Plus Year Love Story, and It All Started With an Ad and a Computer
Larry and Shelly Beaser met thanks to the computer dating service Operation Match in 1965, and have now been married for more than 50 years.
Back in the early '60s a computer dating service decided these two people were compatible. That calculation was right. John and Carol Matlock will... Computer Love: Their 1960s-Era Dating Strategy?
"We'll make you a believer in computer dating." That was the claim of an ad published Sunday April 1, 1973, in The Canton Repository. No fooling. Fifty years ago, the precursor to online dating had ...
Almost 40 years before Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, another Harvard undergraduate harnessed cutting-edge technology to connect college students. In 1965 Jeff Tarr created a groundbreaking ...
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