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A history of the Bloomberg Terminal, from carrier pigeons to fiber
Good background on why one box still dominates trading desks.
IEEE Spectrum traces how market information moved from telegraph and ticker tape to the Bloomberg Terminal, and how controlling the interface became the business.
Read it at the source
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Ticker tape
After exploring The History of the Bloomberg Terminal, the terminal’s ancestor was Ticker tape.
The first electrical financial data medium, sending stock prices over telegraph lines from about 1870 to 1970.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
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