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Top 10 Inventions in Money Technology During the 1900's

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the layaway dept.

scuggums writes "The DaVinci Institute has put together an interesting historic piece to help put the world of money technology into perspective. While I'm glad to see the ATM machine made the list, I had no idea it was invented back in 1939. Other items on the list are barcodes, spreadsheets, and RSA encryption. This looks to be one of the research pieces the Institute's doing for their upcoming Future of Money Summit in October."

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  1. different flavou^Hrs of money? by SHEENmaster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How thought up making different currencies have different appearances? It's because of them that sending $599 in monopoly money to SCO can be done safely, without fear of said money going toward their legal fund.

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  2. Pedant by Xunker · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In all fairness, it shouldn't be "ATM machine", just "ATM". ATM means "Automatic Teller Machine" so adding machine is redundant.

    Also, as we all know, the phrase "Automatic teller machine" is from ancient Sumerian and means "Magic Wall".

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  3. ATM Machine? Come on now. by lucifuge31337 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    OK, Maybe this is being a grammar nazi, but ATM stands for "Automated Teller Machine." I think we all know that. So saying "ATM Machine" is like saying "GNU Not UNIX" instead of GNU.....nevermind. It's nothing at all like that. But It's still WRONG.

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  4. Re:Smart card? by lpret · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I live in Texas and I use a smart card every day. I have never met a cocky Swiss, but I guess there's always a first. Seriously, go fuck yourself.

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