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"Twitter" in 1935
- eam 17y agoHmm... I wonder if it had a 140 character limit.
- njn 17y agowrites a brief message on a continuous strip of paper Sounds like maybe they were handwritten?
- swombat 17y agoNo wonder Twitter is so popular in London. We've been tweeting since 1935!
- wallflower 17y agoLondon was also known for its pneumatic tubes. Though not as extensive as Paris, there were many messages carried via pneumatic tube transport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
- Anon84 17y agoThey even had a business model from day one! (it was coin based)
- barmstrong 17y agoKey difference: "the user drops a coin into the slot". Twitter missed that part :)
- aw3c2 17y agoIt would have miserably failed if they did not "miss" that part.
- archgoon 17y agoThis is a message to location service. There is no broadcasting to all Notificators in London simultaneously, and each requires a coin for each message sent. The message is only up for two hours, and is not tied to a user. The intended purpose was for a specific person to be present at the destination. How is this analogous to twitter any more than say, the classifieds of a newspaper?
- drgath 17y agoYou are totally right. Also, here you are writing on a piece of paper instead of typing in a text box. The viewing interface is also totally different as one is a either a monitor or a mobile device, and another is a crude bulletin board thing. And don't even get me started on ... Lighten up! :)
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- archgoon 17y agoThe interface hardly matters. I apologize for thinking about this too hard.
- chanux 17y agoWonder what this does http://www.notificator.com http://www.notificator.com PS: It's does Twitter searches.
- frederickcook 17y agoIt even has location-based technology: it lets you know when your friends are near!
- Luc 17y agoHere's another view of it: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3359446/Hulton-Archive http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3359446/Hulton-Archive The Popular Mechanix article says the message will stay in view 'at least two hours', while the Getty Images caption says 'up to two hours'. By the looks of it the latter seems more likely - pump enough coins into the machine and you can make earlier messages roll out of view!
- Roridge 17y agoI love the way the post on the blog is under the category "Useless Tech". I wonder if there was a patent for the machine.
- roundsquare 17y agoVery cool. I wonder how widely used it was.