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Operation Match: Jeff Tarr and the Invention of Computer Dating

Operation Match: Jeff Tarr and the Invention of Computer Dating

Tarr, Patsy
Lupton, Ellen
Larkin, Jim

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral ComputersGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0972388621
ISBN13: 9780972388627
Publisher: 2wice Books LLC
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The improbable and untold story of the college student who invented the world's first computer dating service

In the fall of 1962, Jeff Tarr, a teenager from a small town in Maine, began his freshman year at Harvard University. By the time he graduated, he had developed and launched the first-ever computer dating service, upending courting rituals at colleges across the United States and becoming a minor celebrity in his own right. Tarr's innovation arrived in a nation whose campuses were still in step with 1950s notions of morality, propriety and tradition--many northeastern college dormitories were still segregated by sex, and bars weren't a place for singles to meet and mingle. In just a few semesters, Tarr brought computer algorithms to the people, propelling America's youngest adults headlong into the swinging '60s. As the sexual revolution and women's rights movement gained steam, and as civil rights victories mounted and the Vietnam War dragged on, Tarr's new vision for how young men and women should pair off rode a surging wave of cultural change.

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