WHICH OF THESE IMAGES is your daily mole-man?
AND WHICH IS a picture of J. Hodgman meeting a 3rd Stage Guild Navigator?
THINK before you answer.
THAT IS ALL
MYSTERY IMAGE “A” COURTESY: Matt Harvest, who is MALE AND TAKEN.
MYSTERY IMAGE “B” COURTESY: Scott Keating, of Newfoundland.
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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