An early form of cryptocurrency that could only be used for more tootsie pops...but like most crypto today, it was a scam your friends got you involved in.
You’d type or hand print or write (in cursive!) a message, wrap it around a cylinder, dial a dedicated fax phone number and AS IF BY MAGIC the message appeared on the receiving end.
#ExplainVintageTechnology#hashtaggames You put spirit fluid and special paper in this machine and crank it by hand (or if you were lucky enough, your school had an electric one). This is how your teacher made copies. They smelled delicious!
Payphone: A phone placed randomly out in public places which required a quarter or a dime or collect service.
Quarter / Dime: Round metal objects manufactured by our government and used to procure goods and services. Before CC, ATM, and Crapto.
Collect call: Used to be only one party paid to make a phone call. The receiving party never paid. This is the biggest scam the phone companies ever pulled and we just took it in the face without question.
Micro-globules of ink were entrapped in paper fibers; the paper was stacked in two layers, and a duplicate impression made on the under layer when the top layer was marked with an implement like a pen, pencil, fingernail, knitting needle, chop stick, coin, key, letter opener, stick, whatEVER.
An electron beam would hit a phosphor coated sealed glass tube and cause the phosphor to glow. Magnetic fields would bend the electron beam back and forth in descending rows. This was called a TV.
.... and if your battery is all run down you can still start the car by making your kids push it until it goes fast enough to pop it in second gear and you don't need the starter motor to get it going.