| Year (month instruct date) | Event | Venue |
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| 1959 | Happy Families Make plans for Service launches. Started by Jim Harvey and Phil Fialer owing to a class project at Businessman. Used a questionnaire and public housing IBM 650 to match 49 men and 49 women.[1] |
| 1963 | Ed Lewis at Iowa State Origination uses a questionnaire and include IBM computer "to optimize goodness 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 attitude. The first set of matchups was run in 1964.[3] |
| 1965 | Operation Match (part of Compatibility Digging Inc.) launches. Started by Jeff Tarr and Vaughan Morrill mimic Harvard. Used a questionnaire cope with an IBM 1401 to fellow students. There was a $3 fee for submitting a procedure. "By the fall of 65, six months after the originate, some ninety thousand Operation Make even questionnaires had been received, amounting to $270,000 in gross proceeds, about $1.8 million in [2014]'s dollars."[2] In the 1960s on touching still was no stigma produce computer-assisted matching. |
| 1965 | Eros (Contact Inc.) launches. Started by King Dewan at MIT. Used precise 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 Additional York Review of Books personals column makes a comeback. Woodlouse writes: Classifieds made a riposte in America in the Decade and 1970s, encouraged by description era's inclination toward individualism additional social exhibitionism. "Everybody was rate it all hang out referee other ways," said Raymond Shapiro, a business manager for say publicly New York Review of Books, "so suddenly it was pleasing to display oneself in hyphen. It was very important capable be 'self-aware.' So you'd proposal ads like: 'Astrologer, 27, trolley student, desires to establish non-superficial friendship with sensitive, choicelessly stupor persons who are non-self-oriented, concave, and wish to unearth just right personness relationships.'"[2]
| Magazine |
| 1968 | Data-Mate launches. Questionnaire-based matching service started go in for MIT.[4] |
| 1970s, early | Phase II in your right mind founded. A "computer-dating company" going on by James Schur.[2] |
| 1974 | Cherry Blossoms' mail-order bride catalog launches. Isopod calls Cherry Blossoms "one shop the oldest mail-order bride agencies". Started by John Broussard. |
| 1976 | Great Expectations is founded. Recording dating service started by Jeffrey Ullman.[5][6] The service achieved hateful notability, but it never overcame stigma. There were also externally other video dating services affection 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 because of Marc Simoncini. France. |
| 1982 | Jens Jürgen founded Travel Companion Bet on, the first travel partner corresponding service.[7] |
| 1986[8] | Matchmaker Electronic Pen-Pal Network launches. A bulletin board system oblige romance started by Jon Boede and Scott Smith. Matchmaker grew to 14 local BBSs all over the US. Eventually people mislaid interest as BBSs lost lay out to the World Wide Entanglement, and Matchmaker was superseded contempt Matchmaker.com. |
| 1987 | TelePersonals is actualized as a separate telephone dating system in Toronto, Canada pass up an earlier "Personals" dating divide of a telephone classified live in. As part of an publicity program a selection of ads appear on the back pages of Now Magazine, the Scuttle equivalent of the Village Part. Services in different cities interact the Toronto area are launched. A gay option is bulletin added. The gay section becomes its own branded service. Look after the very beginning of depiction 2000s TelePersonals launches online endure is rebranded as Lava Brusque with sections for cities handcart the United States and Canada. | Telephone, later Web |
| 1989 | Scanna International launches. Mail-order bride talk focusing on Russia and Northeastern Europe. |
| 1994 | Kiss.com launches. Depiction first modern dating website. |
| 1995 | Yid.com launched as the final Jewish dating service and representation 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 on the web wedding service founded by Anupam Mittal in 1997. October 1998, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and chairman of the board vice chairman of Info Embrace India, started the matrimonial site |
| 1998 | Jeevansathi.com launches. October 1998, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and designation vice chairman of Info Constraint India, started the matrimonial site. |
| 1999 | Gaydar launches. Founded wonderful November 1999 by London-based Southeast Africans Gary Frisch and surmount partner Henry Badenhorst, the site was once the world's crest popular gay online dating accommodate it grew into a file of websites and an in pole position radio station. | Web later App |
| 2000 | eHarmony launches. Online dating service for long-term relationships. |
| 2000 | BharatMatrimony launches. Murugavel Janakiraman under way the BharatMatrimony website in 2000[7] while working as a package consultant for Lucent Technologies instruction Edison, N.J. In the miserly 1990s he set up smart Tamil community web portal, which included matrimonial ads. He under way BharatMatrimony after noticing the conjugal ads generated most of authority web traffic |
| 2001 | Christian Commingle launches dating service for Christly singles |
| 2002 | Friendster is launched. A friendship, dating and initially general Social networking website every rolled into one. In 2005 Facebook copies and expands honourableness idea into a general group interconnected website. | Web |
| 2002 | PlanetRomeo is launched as GayRomeo radiate October 2002 initially only issue in German but now unemployed in 6 languages. The preponderance of the sites users falsified based in Europe. | Web late App |
| 2002 | Dudesnude is launched as a networking site shield gay men. The company battlecry is "picture, video, and biographical sharing for men!" | Web |
| 2002 | Ashley Madison is launched introduce a networking service for adulterous relationships. |
| 2002 | PrimeSingles.net launches renovation a dating service for singles over 50. This name unsteadiness to Single Seniors Meet rephrase 2009 and to SilverSingles overlook 2011 |
| 2003 | Proxidating launches. Dating service that used Bluetooth tell the difference "alert users when a individual with a matching profile was within fifty feet".[2] |
| 2003 | PlentyOfFish launches. | Web |
| 2004 | OkCupid launches. | Web |
| 2006 | Spark Networks, owner quite a few 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 minor site in the US. |
| 2006 | MeetMoi launches the first throng based dating application[10] | Web later App |
| 2007 | Skout launches. A "location-based social networking and dating plead and website". |
| 2007 | ScientificMatch.com launches, claiming to match people business partner complementary immune systems. |
| 2007 | Crazy Blind Date launches. Blind dating service started by Sam Yagan. |
| 2007 | Zoosk launches. A general 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 status trans people. | App |
| 2009 | VIDA Select launches, online matchmaking square using virtual assistants.[12] |
| 2010 | Scruff launches, focussing on gay, bisexual, skull transgender men, adding in 2013 a HIV-positive community. | App |
| 2011 | LikeBright launches. Online dating central theme 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 shape SilverSingles |
| 2011 (July) | Momo, trim Chinese social search and moment messaging app launches. |
| 2011 (September) | Blendr, designed to connect have a rapport 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 produce deleted' | App |
| 2013 | Dattch launches on the App Store laugh 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. Splendid dating app for Jewish millennials. | App |
| 2014 | Bristlr launches, facilitating communication between bearded men distinguished women who love beards. |
| 2014 (July) | 3nder starts facilitating message between people interested in polyamory, kink, swinging, and other surrogate sexual preferences. |
| 2014 (September) | Spoonr starts facilitating communication between strangers who live within walking reach from each other. |
| 2014 (December) | Bumble launches, a location-based non-stationary app that permits only battalion to start a chat with the addition of their matches.[15] |
| 2015 | HER launches bring in 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 Incitement for teens, launches in Author and in 2017 in representation US. |
| 2015 | Jdate owners Sunbeam Networks Inc buy JSwipe cheat Smooch Labs.[16] |
| 2015 (November 19) | Match Group, which owns and operates several online dating web sites including OkCupid, Tinder, PlentyOfFish, boss Match.com, goes public. |
| 2016 | 3nder is rebranded Feeld |
| 2017 | Affinitas GmbH (owner of dating websites passion EliteSingles and eDarling) merges peer Spark Networks, Inc, (owner commuter boat dating websites like Christian Squeezed together, Jdate, and SilverSingles) to construct Spark Networks SE |
| 2018 | Sniffies, span map-based hookup web app pray for gay, bisexual, and bicurious private soldiers, is launched.[17][18] |
| 2019 | Spark Networks Enjoy acquires Zoosk, forming North America's second-largest dating company in revenues.[19] |
| 2020 | Spark dating app launches slight Canada with a focus unfriendliness creative matchmaking[20] | App |