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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by talldatethrow on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:12PM (#37515510)
I remember being on SparkMatch when I was a 14-15 year old. A dating site meant for teens, from the makers of Spark Notes.

I always had this weird vague hunch that spark match become OKCupid. Any info on this?

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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by martey on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:21PM (#37515590)
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkCupid

> SparkMatch debuted as a beta experiment of allowing registered users who had taken the Match Test to search for and contact each other based on their Match Test types. The popularity of SparkMatch took off and it was launched as its own site, later renamed OkCupid.

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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by qingcharles on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:34PM (#37517576)
The biggest online dating site in the 90s had a minimum age of 13 o_O. I thought that was weird, even back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaker.com

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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by talldatethrow on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:49PM (#37517671)
I remember I was 14-15 on SparkMatch because I had to convince my mom to drive me 30 miles to a mall so I could meet a girl from SparkMatch. To this day I was the most out of my league girl I ever 'dated' (only kissed a few times). I soon acted too sweet and too lame and lost her. But it taught me a lot to always be cooler and I cleaned up in the coming OkCupid/PlentyofFish revolution, and doubly so by the time Tinder came around. I still think about that girl sometimes, which makes sense, because she was somewhat unique to be online constantly back in 1999-2000.
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