# @feministscience on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUl8hVpEUCm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65473698-feministscience-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-10T21:43:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Feminist Science (@feministscience) — https://gondola.cc/feministscience

## Caption

Vintage computer dating ad (1985). Apparently, computer dating will feel like a light beam!

. Early dating services mainly relied on similarities among answers to questionnaires. Often, they offered very lengthy (400+ questions) questionaries, and basically just matched people based on similar percent matching. Today, more complicated algorithms are used to rank users and create a dating hierarchy. 

Read more on the history of #computerdating on my FREE #feministsciencesubstack 

https://feministscientist.substack.com/p/toxic-algorithms-elo-rating-and-dating

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