I’m curious to know when exactly that practice ended in Western Europe and North America. As a millennial, the only time I ever encountered it was in 2008 in an

I’m curious to know when exactly that practice ended in Western Europe and North America. As a millennial, the only time I ever encountered it was in 2008 in an outdoor shop in Thamel, Kathmandu’s backpacker ghetto. The owners said that they could not accept my Visa Electron card (standard European debit card) because it was not a real credit card, and they showed me the machine they used to take imprints of real credit cards. Of course, this was all gone by my next visit to Nepal a couple of years later.