The concept of dating through the use of a computer didn’t really catch on for most of society until around the 1990s, but one Philadelphia couple can thank the advent of the computer for helping jumpstart their relationship in 1965.
That year, Shelly Beaser (then Bronstein), from Broomall, was a sophomore and commuter student at Temple University and her now longtime husband Larry Beaser, was a junior at the University of Pennsylvania.
Both came across an ad in their respective school newspapers from Operation Match, the first computer dating service in the United States, which launched earlier that same year…