This is a timeline of online dating services that visit web page includes broader events related to technology-assisted dating not just online dating. Where there are similar services, only major ones or "the first of its kind" are listed.
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Long before Match.com, eHarmony, and Christian Mingle, there was Operation Match.
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Happy Families Planning Services launches. Used a questionnaire and an IBM to match 49 men and 49 women. Joan Ball starts the first commercially run computer generated matchmaking company. The first set of matchups is run. Slater writes: Classifieds made a comeback in America in the s and s, encouraged by sites era's inclination toward individualism and social exhibitionism.
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Operation Match part of Compatibility Research Inc. It uses a questionnaire and an IBM to match students. Eros Contact Inc. It uses a dating questinnaire and Honeywell Data-Mate is launched at the MIT. It's a questionnaire-based matching service. Phase II is founded by James Schur.
It's a "computer-dating company". Cherry Blossoms' mail-order bride catalog launches. It's started by John Broussard. It would become "one of the oldest mail-order bride agencies". Great Expectations is founded by Jeffrey Ullman. It's a video dating service. There is also apparently other video dating services like Teledate and Introvision [note 1]. They are chat rooms for dating using the Minitel network. It's a bulletin board system for romance. Scanna International launches. It's a mail-order bride service.
It's original "offline matchmaking service in San Francisco". They offer online dating service for long-term relationships. Ashley Madison is founded.
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Proxidating launches. It's a dating service that uses Bluetooth to "alert users when a person with a matching profile was within fifty feet". PlentyofFish launched by Markus Frind. It's an online dating site significant for being one of the first? SeekingArrangement launches. Badoo launches.
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It's a "dating-focused social networking service". Skout launches. It's dating "location-based social networking and dating dating and website". Crazy Blind Date is launched by Sam Yagan. It's a blind dating service. Grindr initial launch. LikeBright is launched by Nick Soman. It's an online dating site. Tinder launches. It's a dating service for people seeking companionship when traveling.
Highlight launches. Slater calls it a "location-based dating app", though this doesn't seem to be its main function it seems more social than romantic. EliteSingles launches. Bespoke dating website for professional singles is first launched in UK market. Bumble, a location-based mobile app that permits only women to start a chat with their matches, launches. OpenMinded is launched by Brandon Wade. It's a dating site online " monogamish " people. Ashley Madison gets hacked; users' personal information is stolen and released; see Ashley Madison data breach for more.
Facebook Dating launches.