The colonial New England version of a first date was called bundling. He rode too far to come back in the dark, so he stayed the night in the girl's bed, fully clothed. Her mother tied her into a sack up to her waist. Her father laid a plank down the center of the mattress. Her parents slept ten feet away. The couple would talk until sunrise, and if it went well, a proposal followed within days. Bundling lasted 160 years. Tinder turns 14 next month.