History

27 JUNE - WORLD ATM DAY - CELEBRATING THE WORLD'S ORIGINAL FINTECH

Some ATM History

FIRST FACIA

FIRST VOUCHER

FIRST FACIA

The first facia (27 June 1967). Note the four-digit Personal Identification Number (PIN) was involved from the outset and was not invented later as some have claimed.

FIRST ATM

FIRST VOUCHER

FIRST FACIA

The world's first semi-automated cash dispenser -- later to become known as the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) -- was unveiled by Barclays Bank on 27 June 1967 at this Enfield Branch in North London.

(The full story of the ATM's invention is told in the book 'Hole in the Wall' which is for sale from this site's shop)

FIRST VOUCHER

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

From 1967. Note the 'Hollerith Decadal Punched Holes' in the printed blue (radioactive) strip. These had to match the PIN sequence, keyed in separately.

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

Note the 'Hollerith Decadal Punched Holes'. This was the same technology as used earlier by Barclays.

FIRST CARD ATM

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST MOBILE ATM

The Chubb variant of the original De La Rue DACS (1969)

FIRST MOBILE ATM

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST MOBILE ATM

At the Surrey County Show, Guildford, England, August 1972

FIRST DRIVE-THRU

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

ARGUABLY THE WORLD'S ORIGINAL FINTECH

Now gone, the world's first ever drive-thru ATM was located here, outside the Drummonds' branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland in Trafalgar Square, London SW1

ARGUABLY THE WORLD'S ORIGINAL FINTECH

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

ARGUABLY THE WORLD'S ORIGINAL FINTECH

Europe's first paper banknote

(although the Chinese apparently had them 800 years earlier ... someone please advise !)

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

Opened in Vancouver on 25 October 2013. Included a palm-vein scanner

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/world-s-first-bitcoin-atm-goes-live-in-vancouver-tuesday-1.2251820

INVENTION

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

This video is a little US-centric, but gets it essentially correct ... there certainly was more than one 'inventor' of the ATM. But there was only one inventor of the world's first fully functional 24/7 cash dispenser. (Clue: He was a Brit). Read 'Hole in the Wall' to know the full story. You can buy it from the shop on this website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqbd4TNIc0

Some ATM History

FIRST FACIA

FIRST VOUCHER

FIRST FACIA

FIRST ATM

FIRST VOUCHER

FIRST FACIA

FIRST VOUCHER

FIRST VOUCHER

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST CARD ATM

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST MOBILE ATM

FIRST MOBILE ATM

FIRST PLASTIC VOUCHER

FIRST MOBILE ATM

FIRST DRIVE-THRU

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

ARGUABLY THE WORLD'S ORIGINAL FINTECH

ARGUABLY THE WORLD'S ORIGINAL FINTECH

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

ARGUABLY THE WORLD'S ORIGINAL FINTECH

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

INVENTION

INVENTION

PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM

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