Oct. 14, 2025
Dating Apps & Mail-Order Brides
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Learn all about how people have been getting together throughout history, and the strange practice of Mail-Order Brides!
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Personal Ad from 1759!
The first computer used for matchmaking.
The IBM 650, 1959
The first computer matchmaking service in the U.S.
Operation Match, 1965
Great Expectations, the videotape dating service.
Dateline Ad
Match.com's original logo. 1995
Picture Brides arriving to California, 1910.
Picture Brides arriving in California, 1920.
War Bride
The Armenian Genocide Memorial, Denver, CO
