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Wed Nov-09-05 10:53 AM
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milestones in credit card history |
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1973 NBI pioneers e-commerce and introduces the world’s first global electronic card authorization system, BASE I, reducing consumer wait time for transaction authorization from more than five minutes to less than one minute. And authorization is now available 24 hours a day.
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Wed Nov-09-05 10:57 AM
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1. makes you wonder how we survived in 1972 |
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with our black and white TVs, no remote controls, no cell phones, internet, or even pong. No VCRs. It was brutal, I will tell ya.
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Wed Nov-09-05 10:59 AM
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2. i think it was probably akin to the dark ages |
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people walking around in animal skins, an era when life was "nasty, brutish, and short"
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Wed Nov-09-05 11:12 AM
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lead in our gasoline and our paint, and no air-bags or shoulder straps. Yes, I think we had fur coats and hats too.
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