Operation Match: How the first computerized dating service came to be : NPR
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. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Looking for love is an art, not a science. And yet, people have been trying to crack the code for such a long time, whether through matchmakers or speed dating or, these days, AI. Back in the 1960s, a couple of Harvard students had an idea. Businesses had started using a new technology called computers, and at the time, they were the size of a whole room. They might have been used for big tasks, like processing a company payroll. But what if those clunky computers could be used to get a date? From Radio Diaries, here's the story of the very first computer dating service called Operation Match. JO MARGOLIS: My name is Jo Margolis, and in 1966, I found myself in a single-sex college on the edges of Philadelphia, and it was like being in a convent. Of course, you wanted to meet guys. But the way you met guys
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