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Prior Art to Pinpoint vs. Amazon, from 1980's?

Posted by timothy on from the first-person-singular dept.

Gary Robinson writes "I'm in a fairly unique position with regard to the Pinpoint vs. Amazon case since I built a system in the mid-1980's which is commonly regarded as the first active service based on collaborative filtering. It was a voice-mail-based dating service called 212-ROMANCE. I still have the 8-inch CP/M source code disks as insurance against CF-related patent lawsuits. Today I've posted a discussion of the Pinpoint vs. Amazon case in the context of that prior art as well other prior art from the 1980's."

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  1. frost pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    frost pist!!!!11!oneone!!!

  2. YOUR FP HAS BEEN CLAIMED BY THE GNAA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have been owned by the Gay Nigger Association of America. Fuck off and die, you loser.

  3. Ridiculous by Billgatus-of-Borg · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why does slashdot poster Gary Robinson sound like some kind of street vagabond, rambling into the wind?