# How do you impress your time-traveling visitor from 1978?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 16, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-impress-your-time-traveling-visitor-from-1978/460278 "2008-08-16T23:43:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-impress-your-time-traveling-visitor-from-1978/460278/101 "2008-08-24T18:04:14Z")

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> I’m surprised no one has mentioned ATMs

Using the same card in ATMs anywhere in the world is new, but they were not uncommon in Britain by 1978. I remember them appearing earlier than that in the small-ish town where I grew up.

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