“Your business is our pleasure. Your pleasure is our business.” This was the slogan hung outside a Harvard dorm room in 1965, marking the headquarters of the first computer matchmaking service in the ...

This article is adapted from How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, out Nov. 15 from Workman Publishing. Order it here now. In 1727, the Manchester Weekly ...

Sweden's moves toward a cashless economy may offer lessons for what the U.S. will deal with in the future. But now let's take a trip into the past. With Valentine's Day around the corner, we dug into ...

Long before Hinge or Tinder, early computing took finding your perfect match to a new level. Associate Professor of Data Science Mar Hicks, and author of "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order ...

"We'll make you a believer in computer dating." That was the claim of an ad published Sunday April 1, 1973, in The Canton Repository. No fooling. Fifty years ago, the precursor to online dating had ...

In 1971, computer dating involved people filling out forms and sending them by mail to a service where they ran profiles through a computer and... What Computer Dating Looked Like When We First ...