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A hotel I stayed at actually made an impression from my card in... I'm going to say maybe 2015 (I'm pretty sure this is before Trump, but it's after Marvel started re-publishing Miracleman). Hotel somewhere in the middle of Nottingham. Room nice enough, but no actual card machine.


That’s wild. Last time I saw one in the US was a family owned gas station around 2000.


There’s a pizza joint down the street from me that was still using one when the pandemic started. I would call them to order and they’d show up with the impression machine. I couldn’t use my Apple Card to pay with them.


Well, there’s quite a few generations of technology between card impressioning and Apple Pay.

Maybe 50% of places around me accept Apple Pay but I haven’t personally had a card impressed in ~22 years.


2019, Germany, on an ICE (long-distance train).




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