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Internet Dating History


Internet dating history begins with the earliest newsgroups, such as soc.singles. That also means that the dating scene started well before the first web browsers or WWW were invented.

Although soc.singles was focused on issues such as dating, there emerged an even more popular newsgroup, alt.romance.

These text-based online dating newsgroups had their obvious downsides, such as no ability to see pictures of the other person.

Online Dating History - WWW

The real growth of online dating blossomed with the visual side of Internet coming to play with Word Wide Web and the associated browsers.

There are now over 800 Internet dating services online (according to HitWise), many with less than one year of history behind them.

One of the oldest still surviving pioneers in this field is FriendFinder.com, which was established in 1996 (first web browsers really got popularity around 1992-93, first Netscape browser was published in 1993).

Another pioneer was Match.com, which was founded in 1995. It now boasts over 30 web sites in 18 languages.

Despite being pioneer in the field, the company has really pushed the boundaries of Internet dating innovation with their Total Attraction Matching system.