Joan Ball

Joan Ball (born 1934) is a British businesswoman who started the first computer dating service in England in 1964. Notably, it also pre-dated the earliest American computer dating services.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Ball, Joan (2012). Just Me. p. 318. ISBN 978-1312560147.
  2. ^ Hicks, Mar (1 November 2016). "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology (10). doi:10.7264/N3NP22QR. ISSN 2325-0496. Archived from the original on 8 November 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  3. ^ "The Mother of All Swipes". Logic Magazine. 18 September 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.