WWotD - 12 March 2012

I just realized: there are people now being fixed up by online dating services whose parents hooked up via online dating services. Online match making has been around at least since the late 80s (Matchmaker.com is the oldest one I could find, from '86), but became more prevalent in the late 90s. Let's say a couple got together in '95, married by '96, and had a kid in '97. That kid would now be 25...old enough to be using an online dating site.

Another "Don't you feel like an old fart?" moment, brought to you by Word E Smyth.

be·troth

 verb \bi-ˈtrōth, -ˈtrȯth, bē-\

Definition of BETROTH

transitive verb

1

: to promise to marry

2

: to give in marriage
from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/betroth