zwiebel
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The New York Times regularly shares archive articles and I always like to read them. This one is about a trend in 1966 to get NY trendsetters to buy bikinis - only 20 years after they hit the beaches in the South of France.
It's interesting in itself but just look at the article; one of the potential bikini buyers they interviewed, Edith Mayer, is about to get married, and 'met her fiance through a computer'.
This is in '66! Surely one of the very first online matches, before the worldwideweb was even invented? I would love to know more about Edith's story!
http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/05/30/issue.html
It's interesting in itself but just look at the article; one of the potential bikini buyers they interviewed, Edith Mayer, is about to get married, and 'met her fiance through a computer'.
This is in '66! Surely one of the very first online matches, before the worldwideweb was even invented? I would love to know more about Edith's story!
http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/05/30/issue.html
