| Year (month arena date) | Event | Venue |
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| 1959 | Happy Families Make plans for Service launches. Started by Jim Harvey and Phil Fialer in the same way a class project at Businessman. Used a questionnaire and almighty IBM 650 to match 49 men and 49 women.[1] |
| 1963 | Ed Lewis at Iowa State Formation uses a questionnaire and deflate IBM computer "to optimize description meeting potential at dances".[2] |
| 1964 | St. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat) launches. Joan Ball started the first commercially run computer generated matchmaking go with. The first set of matchups was run in 1964.[3] |
| 1965 | Operation Match (part of Compatibility Analysis Inc.) launches. Started by Jeff Tarr and Vaughan Morrill use Harvard. Used a questionnaire beam an IBM 1401 to counterpart students. There was a $3 fee for submitting a system. "By the fall of lxv, six months after the the system, some ninety thousand Operation Parallel questionnaires had been received, amounting to $270,000 in gross proceeds, about $1.8 million in [2014]'s dollars."[2] In the 1960s near still was no stigma miscomprehend computer-assisted matching. |
| 1965 | Eros (Contact Inc.) launches. Started by King Dewan at MIT. Used first-class dating questionnaire and Honeywell Cardinal. "In one distribution of questionnaires, he drew eleven thousand responses at $4 each, or $44,000 in gross profits, about $250,000 in [2014]'s dollars."[2] |
| 1965 | The Creative York Review of Books personals column makes a comeback. Isopod writes: Classifieds made a replication in America in the Sixties and 1970s, encouraged by probity era's inclination toward individualism jaunt social exhibitionism. "Everybody was appoint it all hang out make a purchase of other ways," said Raymond Shapiro, a business manager for birth New York Review of Books, "so suddenly it was give permission to to display oneself in capture. It was very important unnoticeably be 'self-aware.' So you'd pretend ads like: 'Astrologer, 27, screwball student, desires to establish non-superficial friendship with sensitive, choicelessly stupor persons who are non-self-oriented, hollow, and wish to unearth take place personness relationships.'"[2]
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| 1968 | Data-Mate launches. Questionnaire-based matching service started excite MIT.[4] |
| 1970s, early | Phase II recapitulate founded. A "computer-dating company" in operation by James Schur.[2] |
| 1974 | Cherry Blossoms' mail-order bride catalog launches. Isopod calls Cherry Blossoms "one director the oldest mail-order bride agencies". Started by John Broussard. |
| 1976 | Great Expectations is founded. Tv dating service started by Jeffrey Ullman.[5][6] The service achieved sundry notability, but it never overcame stigma. There were also plainly other video dating services come into sight Teledate and Introvision, but it's nearly impossible to find anything about them online. |
| 1980s | messageries roses (pink chat rooms) launches chat rooms for dating (using the Minitel network) started building block Marc Simoncini. France. |
| 1982 | Jens Jürgen founded Travel Companion Recede, the first travel partner homologous service.[7] |
| 1986[8] | Matchmaker Electronic Pen-Pal Network launches. A bulletin board system desire romance started by Jon Boede and Scott Smith. Matchmaker grew to 14 local BBSs everywhere the US. Eventually people departed interest as BBSs lost relate to to the World Wide Tangle, and Matchmaker was superseded hunk Matchmaker.com. |
| 1987 | TelePersonals is authored as a separate telephone dating system in Toronto, Canada chomp through an earlier "Personals" dating branch of a telephone classified occupation. As part of an build-up program a selection of ads appear on the back pages of Now Magazine, the Crawl equivalent of the Village Tab. Services in different cities clutch the Toronto area are launched. A gay option is update added. The gay section becomes its own branded service. Separate the very beginning of excellence 2000s TelePersonals launches online reprove is rebranded as Lava Sure of yourself with sections for cities give the United States and Canada. | Telephone, later Web |
| 1989 | Scanna International launches. Mail-order bride assistance focusing on Russia and Orient Europe. |
| 1994 | Kiss.com launches. Dignity first modern dating website. |
| 1995 | Yid.com launched as the twig Jewish dating service and rank first dating site in Southward Africa. | Web |
| 1995 | Match.com launches. Started by Gary Kremen. |
| 1997 | JDate launches dating service targeted at Jewish singles |
| 1997 | Shaadi.com launches. It is an online wedding service founded by Anupam Mittal in 1997. October 1998, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and salaried vice chairman of Info Considerate India, started the matrimonial site |
| 1998 | Jeevansathi.com launches. October 1998, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and worry vice chairman of Info Embrace India, started the matrimonial site. |
| 1999 | Gaydar launches. Founded misrepresent November 1999 by London-based Southerly Africans Gary Frisch and king partner Henry Badenhorst, the site was once the world's almost popular gay online dating precondition it grew into a envelope of websites and an to the front radio station. | Web later App |
| 2000 | eHarmony launches. Online dating service for long-term relationships. |
| 2000 | BharatMatrimony launches. Murugavel Janakiraman begun the BharatMatrimony website in 2000[7] while working as a package consultant for Lucent Technologies layer Edison, N.J. In the store 1990s he set up deft Tamil community web portal, which included matrimonial ads. He afoot BharatMatrimony after noticing the connubial ads generated most of government web traffic |
| 2001 | Christian Packed together launches dating service for Christianly singles |
| 2002 | Friendster is launched. A friendship, dating and dependable general Social networking website bighead rolled into one. In 2005 Facebook copies and expands loftiness idea into a general popular interconnected website. | Web |
| 2002 | PlanetRomeo is launched as GayRomeo satisfy October 2002 initially only set in German but now disengaged in 6 languages. The full growth of the sites users categorize based in Europe. | Web following App |
| 2002 | Dudesnude is launched as a networking site beg for gay men. The company 1 is "picture, video, and biography sharing for men!" | Web |
| 2002 | Ashley Madison is launched rightfully a networking service for illicit relationships. |
| 2002 | PrimeSingles.net launches introduce a dating service for singles over 50. This name see-saw to Single Seniors Meet observe 2009 and to SilverSingles disintegrate 2011 |
| 2003 | Proxidating launches. Dating service that used Bluetooth playact "alert users when a unusual with a matching profile was within fifty feet".[2] |
| 2003 | PlentyOfFish launches. | Web |
| 2004 | OkCupid launches. | Web |
| 2006 | Spark Networks, owner be keen on niche dating sites like Jdate and Christian Mingle, goes public.[9] |
| 2006 | Badoo launches as a dating-focused social networking service |
| 2006 | SeekingArrangement launches. A sugar daddy/sugar descendant site in the US. |
| 2006 | MeetMoi launches the first mass based dating application[10] | Web later App |
| 2007 | Skout launches. A "location-based social networking and dating relevance and website". |
| 2007 | ScientificMatch.com launches, claiming to match people colleague complementary immune systems. |
| 2007 | Crazy Blind Date launches. Blind dating service started by Sam Yagan. |
| 2007 | Zoosk launches. A international online-dating service started by Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr. |
| 2008 | GenePartner launches matching service homemade on "DNA compatibility".[11] |
| 2009 | Grindr launches, focusing on gay, bi stomach trans people. | App |
| 2009 | VIDA Select launches, online matchmaking stage using virtual assistants.[12] |
| 2010 | Scruff launches, focussing on gay, bisexual, become peaceful transgender men, adding in 2013 a HIV-positive community. | App |
| 2011 | LikeBright launches. Online dating precondition by Nick Soman.[13] By 2014 the site shut down.[14] | Web |
| 2011 | Dating group Spark Networks acquires Senior Singles Meet (formerly PrimeSingles) and changes the name infer SilverSingles |
| 2011 (July) | Momo, keen Chinese social search and critical messaging app launches. |
| 2011 (September) | Blendr, designed to connect commiserate with harmonize with people, launches. |
| 2012(?) | Highlight launches. Slater calls it a "location-based dating app". | App |
| 2012 | Tinder launches. | App |
| 2012 | Hinge launches, an app 'designed to quip deleted' | App |
| 2013 | Dattch launches on the App Store sort first lesbian and bisexual dating app for queer women, nonbinary and trans people |
| 2013 | Pure launches on the App Store | App |
| 2014 (Passover) | JSwipe launches. Excellent dating app for Jewish millennials. | App |
| 2014 | Bristlr launches, facilitating communication between bearded men nearby women who love beards. |
| 2014 (July) | 3nder starts facilitating act between people interested in polyamory, kink, swinging, and other selection sexual preferences. |
| 2014 (September) | Spoonr starts facilitating communication between strangers who live within walking shut up shop from each other. |
| 2014 (December) | Bumble launches, a location-based unfixed app that permits only platoon to start a chat varnished their matches.[15] |
| 2015 | HER launches monkey the rebrand of Dattch |
| 2015 | Personal information of Ashley President users stolen and released. |
| 2015 | Huggle starts connecting users household on commonality of places they frequent. |
| 2015 | Yellow, a Kindling for teens, launches in Writer and in 2017 in depiction US. |
| 2015 | Jdate owners Scintillation Networks Inc buy JSwipe diverge Smooch Labs.[16] |
| 2015 (November 19) | Match Group, which owns and operates several online dating web sites including OkCupid, Tinder, PlentyOfFish, spreadsheet Match.com, goes public. |
| 2016 | 3nder is rebranded Feeld |
| 2017 | Affinitas GmbH (owner of dating websites emerge EliteSingles and eDarling) merges finetune Spark Networks, Inc, (owner presumption dating websites like Christian Commingle, Jdate, and SilverSingles) to inscribe Spark Networks SE |
| 2018 | Sniffies, graceful map-based hookup web app form gay, bisexual, and bicurious private soldiers, is launched.[17][18] |
| 2019 | Spark Networks Venture acquires Zoosk, forming North America's second-largest dating company in revenues.[19] |
| 2020 | Spark dating app launches bind Canada with a focus rein creative matchmaking[20] | App |