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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Rachel Naylor. Today I'm going to take you back 10 years to the birth of the

dating app Tinder. It revolutionised online dating by introducing a swipe function and allowing

users to see if any potential matches were nearby.

I've been speaking to one of the co-founders of Tinder.

It's 2012 and software designer Chris Kaczynski and his colleagues are brainstorming a new name for their dating app.

We were tossing around all sorts of different words like jive, flirt.

I had like a whole canvas of names that we were like flipping through.

But Tinder just kind of stuck right. I did kind of gave the right word imagery of a match starting a flame, you know.

So Tinder would help spark the kind of burning passion the team wanted their users to feel

when they saw someone they liked. The name stuck and Tinder has now been downloaded

more than 430 million times around the world.

What a crazy experience! How wonderful it was to like do something kind of on the cutting edge of technology

and then to see like just this wide-scale adoption.

There's an untold amount of engagements and marriages and children.

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