Computer History Museum | Operation Match ❤️ @ComputerHistory | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Swipe right through history back to 1965, when the first U.S. computer-based matchmaking service was founded. Operation Match made use of punched cards and an IBM 7090 computer to help college students find their ideal date. By the fall of that same year, 90,000 applications were sent in! ❤️
Read our blog, “Making Your Match” on our website for the full story.
Imagery credits: Harvard Class Book photos of Jeff Tarr and Vaughan Morrill, “The Love Machines” by Dan Slater from Globe Magazine from Jan 13, 2023 (image by Miles Donovan), “New dating craze sweeps campus … boy …girl … computer” by Gene Shalit from Look Magazine from February 22, 1966, Operation Match Booklet gifted by Jeff Tarr, Pete Birkinshaw via Wikipedia, “Pioneers of computer dating game still together” by Michael Vitez from The Philadelphia Inquirer from May 31, 2015
#matchmaking #datingapp #datingonline #valentinesday
Swipe right through history back to 1965, when the first U.S. computer-based matchmaking service was founded. Operation Match made use of punched cards and an IBM 7090 computer to help college students find their ideal date. By the fall of that same year, 90,000 applications were sent in! ❤️
Read our blog, “Making Your Match” on our website for the full story.
Imagery credits: Harvard Class Book photos of Jeff Tarr and Vaughan Morrill, “The Love Machines” by Dan Slater from Globe Magazine from Jan 13, 2023 (image by Miles Donovan), “New dating craze sweeps campus … boy …girl … computer” by Gene Shalit from Look Magazine from February 22, 1966, Operation Match Booklet gifted by Jeff Tarr, Pete Birkinshaw via Wikipedia, “Pioneers of computer dating game still together” by Michael Vitez from The Philadelphia Inquirer from May 31, 2015
#matchmaking #datingapp #datingonline #valentinesday
