Private company
Contact
Early computerized dating service
Contact was one of the first computer dating services, founded in 1965 by David Dewan when he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Contact participants answered 100 questions about themselves and their ideal dates and mailed completed reply forms with a $4 processing fee to Boston.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Contact was one of the first computer dating services, founded in 1965 by David Dewan when he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Contact participants answered 100 questions about themselves and their ideal dates and mailed completed reply forms with a $4 processing fee to Boston.2
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- WikipediaContact (computer dating)
- WikidataQ139259609
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- 1WikidataContact on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaContact on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsContact photo by Weeks1956, CC0