{"id":456,"date":"2008-04-28T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:23:30","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-online-dating-circa-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/456\/retro-scan-of-the-week-online-dating-circa-1985","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Online Dating, Circa 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/peoplelink_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/peoplelink_small.jpg\" alt=\"Online Dating Circa 1985 - American People Link Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>They put that blue streak there for a reason.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It may seem like online dating is a new thing, but it stretches back farther than you&#8217;d think.  Case in point: American People\/Link, an early dial-up relationship service using Teletext &#8212; a much hyped (but little used) online graphical display technology at the time.  I&#8217;m not sure how successful the service was, but that guy looks pretty happy.  If anybody out there ever used People\/Link, we&#8217;d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p><center><small>[ From Popular Computing, February 1985 ]<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Have you ever dated someone you met online?  Beyond that, how have computer networks changed your social life?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They put that blue streak there for a reason. It may seem like online dating is a new thing, but it stretches back farther than you&#8217;d think. Case in point: American People\/Link, an early dial-up relationship service using Teletext &#8212; a much hyped (but little used) online graphical display technology at the time. I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}