Used a dating questionnaire and Honeywell 200. 'By the fall of sixty-five, six months after the launch, some ninety thousand Operation Match questionnaires had been received, amounting to $270,000 in gross profits, about $1.8 million in 's dollars.' In the 1960s there still was no stigma about computer-assisted matching.Įros (Contact Inc.) launches. There was a $3 fee for submitting a questionnaire. Used a questionnaire and an IBM 1401 to match students. Started by Jeff Tarr and Vaughan Morrill at Harvard. Operation Match (part of Compatibility Research Inc.) launches. The first set of matchups was run in 1964. Joan Ball started the first commercially run computer generated matchmaking company. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat) launches. Used a questionnaire and an IBM 650 to match 49 men and 49 women.Įd Lewis at Iowa State University uses a questionnaire and an IBM computer 'to optimize the meeting potential at dances'. Started by Jim Harvey and Phil Fialer as a class project at Stanford. Happy Families Planning Services launches. Where there are similar services, only major ones or 'the first of its kind' are listed. This timeline of online dating services also includes broader events related to technology-assisted dating (not just online dating).
