BNW Timeline

By nkautz
  • Operation Match

    Operation Match

    Harvard Students created a computer based questionnaire where individuals could pay a small fee, answer questions, and their "perfect match" would be determined by an IBM computer
  • First Dating Website

    First Dating Website

    The first modern dating sight, Match.com, was created by engineer and entrepreneur Gary Kremen
  • Rise in popularity of dating apps

    Rise in popularity of dating apps

    With the release of the dating app sensation tinder, many are now looking for love online than the real world
  • online dating surpasses in person dating

    online dating surpasses in person dating

    After the rise in popularity of tinder the world has officially turned away from finding a partner in the traditional sense and has been restricted to almost exclusively online
  • In person dating becomes obsolete

    In person dating becomes obsolete

    The concept of in person dating has been completely abandoned and has been completely replaced with digital algorithms
  • Partner matching testing begins

    Partner matching testing begins

    Some companies begin voluntary studies where individuals have their partners chosen by an algorithm rather than picking for themselves, simulating an arranged marriage
  • Countries begin mandating assigned partnerships

    Countries begin mandating assigned partnerships

    Many nations such as North Korea, China, and Russia have begun to use a matching algorithm to assign mandated partners for their citizens.
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    Rise of mandated

    more and more nations begin assigning people partners based of a matching algorithm, eliminating the need for natural dating and choice in partnership
  • The last country has switch to government assigned partners

    The last country has switch to government assigned partners

    Switzerland, the last country has finally mandated that people have their partners assigned by the government after immense pressure from the other nations
  • "Matching Day" has become an international holday

    "Matching Day" has become an international holday

    After the fall of finding a partner the natural way, a new international holiday, Matching Day, has been created. Now once a year everyone who has turned 18 now gathers together in their country to be matched with their partner