Video-dating services may have stumbled into a model of courtship that reflects the online dating world today, but by the 1990s, when the first set of dating sites popped up — starting with Kiss.com in 1994, then Match.com in 1995 — video dating didn’t really stand a chance.

What was the first dating agency?

Fifty years ago, this woman set up Britain’s first modern dating agency and created a giant industry. 20,000 lonely hearts later (including her own) her views on the changing mores of romance make fascinating reading.

When was tinder invented?

Sean Rad founded Tinder in 2012 at a hackathon held at the startup incubator Hatch Labs in West Hollywood. By 2014, Tinder was registering about one billion daily “swipes” and reported that users logged into the app on average 11 times a day.