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Operation Match: How the first computerized dating service came to be

By Radio Diaries
Published December 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM MST

Back in the 1960s, a couple of Harvard students had an idea. From Radio Diaries, this is a look back at the creation of the very first computerized dating service.

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