Today we will introduce you to a recently launched dating application. Although it may have sounded a bit interesting that such a thing existed at the time, Operation Match broke new ground in the 1960s!
Although it may be a foreign name to many of you, it is a name we hear very often today. online dating It is considered the ancestor of its applications.
Moreover, his period with very advanced technology, people were matched with each other via computer. Sounds a bit reminiscent of Tinder, right?
Three mathematicians from Harvard, Jeff Tarr, David Crump and Vaughan Morrill, made today’s “dates” with this project.
Young people graduating from Harvard, a person who meets people’s criteria He rolled up his sleeves to find it on the internet. In fact, this idea has been tried to be implemented before; but it was unsuccessful.
Operation Match They implemented the project they named in 1965. Growing over time, the project began to appeal to many people. They even prepared a survey consisting of 75 questions. The survey included the ‘criteria’ that people expected from their partners.
The surveys were scanned into IBM computers.
A few weeks later, survey participants received a list of the project participants with whom they were most compatible. In fact, the operation of the project was almost the same as today’s projects. The computer is based on the information filled in by the users. Using this data, it determined suitable matches.
Looking back, this idea seems very crazy at the time. However Operation Match, became so successful that even its rivals began to emerge one by one. Contact Incorporated was one of them.
People have now adapted to this idea by getting rid of traditional dating activities.
The project team reached 1 million candidates by 1968 He even opened an office in New York. However, after some time, the team had to sell part of the project because they could not keep the balance. The internet, which came on the scene in the 1980s, dethroned all these applications.
Operation Match, which was a very brave initiative for its time, Tinder, Bumble It is actually the ancestor of such applications. This action, which is at our fingertips today and can be performed with just a swipe, was also done years ago, even if it is a bit arduous.
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