I HAVE BEEN AWAY FROM THIS IMITATION BLOG FOR SO LONG, I feel like I am part of a one-year-later storyline.
I SHALL RETURN TOMORROW with links to things of interest, including the upcoming SF SKETCHFEST.
AND FOR NOW, you will just have to live with the mystery of why I suddenly have a peg leg and am president of the colonies.
That is all.
1969, DALLAS, TX: The first ATM machine is installed. Standing for “AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE MACHINE,” the first ATM could receive deposits and dispense cash (though only in coins) and was roughly the size of a city block. Despite its name, it was not wholly automated: A single human controller was required to supervise and make manual notations in the customer’s bankbook. He would sit in a little dome atop the machine. However, this bank employee was instructed to wear a tinfoil suit and talk like a machine so as not to ruin the futuristic effect.
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