Thursday, June 28, 2007

Gimme 40

This appears to be the 40th anniversary of many things, such as "The Summer of Love," Sgt. Pepper, me, and, as it turns out, the bane/convenience of all our existences: the ATM.
Before the first ATM was installed by Barclay's Bank near London in 1967, there was a lot of standing in line and writing of checks, though there were probably a lot fewer $20 bills in the United States back then.
Funny with all the advances in chip power how ATMs have not gotten any faster over time. In fact, Bank of America ATMs are getting slower. Oh, wait, that's so we can read their dumb ads while trying to get money...

No comments: