
How Online Dating Works
Stuff You Should Know
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The History of Online Dating
Dating started in the 60s with a guy named Jeff Tar who was a mathematician at Harvard and he was interested in the girls. The computer that they used the circuit board spelled out the word sex. You submitted a questionnaire and Jeff Tar fed your questionnaire into a computer and you were guaranteed to get at least five names of people who the computer decided were a match based on your questionnaire answers.
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