Video dating app that used to be on facebook

Year (month and date)EventVenue 1959 Happy Families Planning Services launches. Started by Jim Harvey and Phil Fialer as a class project at Stanford. Used a questionnaire and an IBM 650 to match 49 men and 49 women. 1963 Ed Lewis at Iowa State University uses a questionnaire and an IBM computer "to optimize the meeting potential at dances".^[1]1964 St. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat) launches. Joan Ball started the first commercially run computer generated matchmaking company. The first set of matchups was run in 1964.^[2]1965 Operation Match (part of Compatibility Research Inc.) launches. Started by Jeff Tarr and Vaughan Morrill at Harvard. Used a questionnaire and an IBM 1401 to match students. There was a $3 fee for submitting a questionnaire. "By the fall of sixty-five, six months after the launch, some ninety thousand Operation Match questionnaires had been received, amounting to $270,000 in gross profits, about $1.8 million in [2014]'s dollars."^[1] In the 1960s there still was no stigma about computer-assisted matching. 1965 Eros (Contact Inc.) launches. Started by David Dewan at MIT. Used a dating questinnaire and Honeywell 200. "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."^[1]1965 The New York Review of Books personals column makes a comeback. Slater writes:

Classifieds made a comeback in America in the 1960s and 1970s, encouraged by the era's inclination toward individualism and social exhibitionism. "Everybody was letting it all hang out in other ways," said Raymond Shapiro, a business manager for the New York Review of Books, "so suddenly it was okay to display oneself in print. It was very important to be 'self-aware.' So you'd get ads like: 'Astrologer, 27, psychology student, desires to establish non-superficial friendship with sensitive, choicelessly aware persons who are non-self-oriented, deep, and wish to unearth real, personness relationships.' "^[1]

Magazine 1968 Data-Mate launches. Questionnaire-based matching service started at MIT.^[3]1970s, early Phase II is founded. A "computer-dating company" started by James Schur.^[1]1974 Cherry Blossoms' mail-order bride catalog launches. Slater calls Cherry Blossoms "one of the oldest mail-order bride agencies". Started by John Broussard. 1976 Great Expectations is founded. Video dating service started by Jeffrey Ullman.^[4][5] The service achieved some notability, but it never overcame stigma. There were also apparently other video dating services like 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 by Marc Simoncini. France. 1986^[6]Matchmaker Electronic Pen-Pal Network launches. A bulletin board system for romance started by Jon Boede and Scott Smith. Matchmaker grew to 14 local BBSs throughout the US. Eventually people lost interest as BBSs lost out to the World Wide Web, and Matchmaker was superseded by Matchmaker.com. 1987 TelePersonals is created as a separate telephone dating system in Toronto, Canada from an earlier "Personals" dating section of a telephone classified business. As part of an advertising program a selection of ads appear on the back pages of Now Magazine, the Canadian equivalent of the Village Voice. Services in different cities around the Toronto area are launched. A gay option is quickly added. The gay section becomes its own branded service. At the very beginning of the 2000s TelePersonals launches online and is rebranded as Lava Life with sections for cities across the United States and Canada. Telephone, later Web 1989 Scanna International launches. Mail-order bride service focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe. 1994 Kiss.com launches. The first modern dating website. 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 executive vice chairman of Info Edge India, started the matrimonial website 1998 Jeevansathi.com launches. October 1998, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge India, started the matrimonial website. 2000 eHarmony launches. Online dating service for long-term relationships. 2000 Bharatmatrimony.com launches. Murugavel Janakiraman started the BharatMatrimony website in 2000[7] while working as a software consultant for Lucent Technologies in Edison, N.J. In the late 1990s he set up a Tamil community web portal, which included matrimonial ads. He started BharatMatrimony after noticing the matrimonial ads generated most of his web traffic 2001 Christian Mingle launches dating service for Christian singles 2002 Friendster is launched. A friendship, dating and early general Social networking website all rolled into one. In 2005 Facebook copies and expands the idea into a general social interconnected website. Web 2002 Ashley Madison is launched as a networking service for extramarital relationships. 2002 PrimeSingles.net launches as a dating service for singles over 50. This name changes to Single Seniors Meet in 2009 and to SilverSingles in 2011 2003 Proxidating launches. Dating service that used Bluetooth to "alert users when a person with a matching profile was within fifty feet".^[1]2003 PlentyOfFish launches. Web 2004 OkCupid launches. Web 2006 Spark Networks, owner of niche dating sites like Jdate and Christian Mingle, goes public.^[7]2006 Badoo launches as a dating-focused social networking service 2006 SeekingArrangement launches. A sugar daddy/sugar baby site in the US. 2007 Skout launches. A "location-based social networking and dating application and website". 2007 Crazy Blind Date launches. Blind dating service started by Sam Yagan. 2007 Zoosk launches. A global online-dating service started by Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr. 2008 GenePartner launches matching service based on "DNA compatibility".^[8]2009 Grindr launches, focussing on gay, bi and trans people. App 2010 Scruff launches, focussing on gay, bisexual, and transgender men, adding in 2013 a HIV-positive community. App 2011 LikeBright launches. Online dating site by Nick Soman.^[9] By 2014 the site shut down.^[10]Web 2011 Dating group Spark Networks acquires Senior Singles Meet (formerly PrimeSingles) and changes the name to SilverSingles 2011 (July) Momo, a Chinese social search and instant messaging app launches. 2011 (September) Blendr, designed to connect like-minded 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 be deleted' App 2014 (Passover) JSwipe launches. A dating app for Jewish millennials. 2014 Bristlr launches, facilitating communication between bearded men and women who love beards. 2014 (July) 3nder starts facilitating communication between people interested in polyamory, kink, swinging, and other alternative sexual preferences. 2014 (September) Spoonr starts facilitating communication between strangers who live within walking distance from each other. 2014 (December) Bumble launches, a location-based mobile app that permits only women to start a chat with their matches.^[11]2015 Personal information of Ashley Madison users stolen and released. 2015 Huggle starts connecting users based on commonality of places they frequent. 2015 Yellow, a Tinder for teens, launches in France and in 2017 in the US. 2015 Jdate owners Spark Networks Inc buy JSwipe from Smooch Labs.^[12]2015 (November 19)Match Group, which owns and operates several online dating web sites including OkCupid, Tinder, PlentyOfFish, and Match.com, goes public.2017 Affinitas GmbH (owner of dating websites like EliteSingles and eDarling) merges with Spark Networks, Inc, (owner of dating websites like Christian Mingle, Jdate, and SilverSingles) to create Spark Networks SE2019 Spark Networks SE acquires Zoosk, forming North America's second-largest dating company in revenues.^[13]