Hence, they created the website to help beautiful, big, and curvy ladies and gents in finding their true love. Founded in 2002, BBPeopleMeet is a daughter platform of People Media, which is owned and operated by Match.com.

What year did online dating start?

Kiss.com becomes the first modern dating website in 1994, followed by match.com in 1995. By 1996, there are 16 online dating sites listed in Yahoo!s directory. Also launched: FriendFinder (and later Adult FriendFinder) (1996), OneAndOnly .com (1996) and JDate (1997).