CEO @StephenRandall found this floating around the internet. It’s a “notificator” or robotic messenger used in the 1930s for friends to leave messages for each other at a specific location. People put a coin into the machine and wrote a message on a continuous strip of paper that stayed up for at least two hours.
Digg calls it the First Twitter, but it’s really more like the First Wiffiti, with the whole broadcasting a message to a screen for all to see.
While essentially the two fulfill the same purpose of connecting people, I have to say our Wiffiti’s a bit more advanced. It’s bigger, quicker and allows you to connect to a lot more people at a lot more places.
Tags: 30s, Digital Out-of-Home, digital signage, LocaModa, out-of-home, twitter, Wiffiti
April 7th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Guess that’s what a quick little 80 years will getcha :)
April 7th, 2009 at 7:35 am
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