Phone dating has been around since the time that adult phone chat lines have been around, and sometimes the two were synonymous with each other. And though largely declined since its heyday decades ago, the phone call chat line service is thriving in its own right and is even subdivided into a variety of categories such as by ethnicity and sexual orientation. It still exists today although dwarfed by popular platforms on mobile phones. Though not necessarily at the forefront of technology, the traditional phone dating chat line niche, if you want to call it traditional, has been around for at least the past two decades. Online dating has come a long way thanks to the evolution of technology, with websites, dating apps, instant messengers and more, but websites offering free chat line numbers for dating people through old fashion phone chat still exist as an active market.