Digital-age dating: Tinder is one of the most popular dating services in Indonesia. — AFP
Online dating can be traced back all the way to 1959 when Jim Harvey and Phil Fialer started Happy Families Planning Services as a class project at Stanford to match 49 men and 49 women.
It was not until 1964, however, that computer-generated matchmaking was made available to the general public when Joan Ball started St James Computer Dating Service.
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