THE ATLANTIC - Feb 14 - Computers did exist in the '60s, in some form -- not personal computers, but computers nonetheless. These machines could crunch the numbers on our personalities and spit out intimate matches. But in the 1960s, what was known as "computer dating" involved no Internet and often few to no visuals. People submitted their vital stats along with questionnaires by mail. People waited patiently for days, weeks, and months as companies processed their answers on intelligence, attractiveness, quirks, and preferences, and would perhaps find them matches. The questionnaire model dated back to the Scientific Marriage Foundation in 1957 and flourished throughout the '60s and '70s. "Inevitably, the singles game is putting technology to use with punchcard-plotted introductions that cost $5 to $150. Harvard students founded a landmark computer-dating service called Operation Match. FULL ARTICLE @ THE ATLANTIC
Operation Match was operated by Harvard and Yale students. Chris Walker was one of them, and was profiled in GQ this month, and has launched Dating Starts Here. Full Disclosure: Chris is a client of Courtland Brooks.
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Posted by: Mark Brooks | Feb 15, 2011 at 04:13 PM