{"id":4728,"date":"2013-04-03T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2013-04-03T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:52:42","slug":"cupid-computers-student-dating-service-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4728","title":{"rendered":"Cupid Computers &#8211; Student Dating service 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria led me to this 1966 form for a student computerized dating service called &#8220;Cupid Computer.&#8221; You can see the form in context in the University of Waterloo student newspaper, Coryphaeus. See <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/uw_imprint\/docs\/1966-67_v7-n09_coryphaeus#download\">1966-67_v7,n09_Coryphaeus<\/a>. Click to read and page forward and you will see the two page insert with the questions you have to answer and send in. Here are some examples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dating.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4734\" title=\"dating\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dating-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dating-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dating.png 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cupid Computer service was apparently &#8220;run by students&#8221; and would, for $3 give you a list of 3 scientifically compatible dates. They mention using an IBM computer and that the Computronics Company is &#8220;The Leader by far in Canadian Computer Dating Systems&#8221;. The PDF of the insert (and cover page) is here,<a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1966-67_v7no9_Coryphaeus.pdf\"> 1966-67_v7no9_Coryphaeus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that this was a student developed service. While serious university computer centers were doing other things, students were developing their own social uses of computers &#8230; and long before the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria led me to this 1966 form for a student computerized dating service called &#8220;Cupid Computer.&#8221; You can see the form in context in the University of Waterloo student newspaper, Coryphaeus. See 1966-67_v7,n09_Coryphaeus. Click to read and page forward and you will see the two page insert with the questions you have to answer and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cupid Computers &#8211; Student Dating service 1966<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4736,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}