*Punch Card Love! A (Very!) Personal History of Computer Dating!
summary
A personal account traces how a first-generation computer dating service used punch cards to match people and even produced the couple that led to a 1968 birth, laying out which demographics were invited or excluded. The talk reconstructs the actual pipelines — questionnaires, card-sorting and early matching heuristics, mainframe-era languages and batch processing — gives concrete company names and surprising participation numbers, and reports which technical choices produced useful matches and which failed.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to dating history
- 1:03Early computer dating attempts
- 2:30Modern dating apps and trends
- 4:05Personal anecdotes and humor
- 6:18Cultural reflections on love
- 8:10Industry insights and observations
- 9:40Conclusion and final thoughts
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