Jul 27

credit card swipe

If a caveman came back and made his way to a store offering Point of Sale (PoS) payment mode, he would be baffled by the ease at which Homo sapiens do their own version of hunting. In truth, the simple act of swapping a small card into a terminal to effect a transaction would bewilder the uninitiated, and not necessary the early man.

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Jul 27

credit-card

Today it’s referred as the old plastic but all credit card buffs know that the first credit cards were not made of plastic but cellulose and metal plates. Encyclopedia Britannica documents that, the use of credit cards originated in the United States during the 1920s, when individual firms, such as oil companies and hotel chains, began issuing them to customers. Also, in the 1920’s, stylish stores in the United States issued them to their favorite customers.

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