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From: NPR

20 Years Ago, Match.Com Revolutionized How To Find A Date

NPR:

Whether you get dumped in person or over the Internet, another potential soulmate is only a click away. It so happens that the first online dating site is celebrating a big anniversary.

Match.com turned 20 years old yesterday.

I think it’s difficult to overstate the impact of match.com in the way that people date.

That’s the voice of Eli Finkel, a professor of psychology and management at Northwestern University who studies, yes, online dating.

It’s completely unrecognizable in 2015 from the way people used to date in 1995.

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