Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Your business is our pleasure. Your pleasure is our business.” This was the slogan hung outside a Harvard dorm room in 1965, ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. In 1971, computer dating involved people ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, long before there was Match, eHarmony, Christian Mingle, or even personal computers, there was Operation Match — the first online dating service in New York City. When it made its debut ...

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?

A very thorough scientific analysis of online dating was recently published by Finkel, et al. (2012). In an interesting 64 page article, they overview the history of matchmaking, social psychological ...

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(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...