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				In 1965, two enterprising students from Harvard, Jack Tarr and Vaughan Morrill, dreamed up the idea of a computerized dating service. Aided by David Crump and Douglas Ginsburg (in 1987 he withdrew his name from nomination to the Supreme Court after admitting to&mdash;gasp!&mdash;smoking pot in college), they <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/03/p-the-originals.html">put their idea in motion and created</a> "Operation Match." Clients paid $3.00 and filled out a 110-item questionnaire that, in addition to the usual statistics of age, height, weight, sex, included questions like the following . . . 				<a href="http://io9.com/390052/meet-your-mate-with-operation-match-the-first-computer-dating-service-1965" title="Click here to read more about Meet Your Mate With Operation Match, the First Computer Dating Service (1965)">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 May 2008 13:30:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynn Peril]]></dc:creator>
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