This is one of those things you buy if you’re rich, bored, or happy to put up with the tick tick tick of the machine printing your tweets.. What’s the point? What do you do with the paper afterwards? Put it in a box and into a storage cupboard but remembering to write down a brief description of tweets, time received and who from?
Yeah, it might be a cool little toy to show off to your friends.. It could give you the experience of how things were donebut not sure if I would want one.. It’s bad enough having to buy ink for a modern printer.. with this you’d be forever running out to get a roll of ticker tape..
It’s a nice piece of art, histry and modern technology but i think we could have found something more useful to do with our time.. Saying that, I doubt I would be able to build one
This reminds me of he Titanic II that is being built and planned to sail in 2016..
First testing of Titanic II to take place
Are we really that bored that we cannot come up with something original to do?
The ticker tweeter report..
A web developer from Cumbria has built a modern version of a 19th Century ticker-tape machine which prints out tweets.
The ‘twittertape’ device was built from scratch using second-hand parts from clocks and other sources, said creator Adam Vaughan.
The wooden base hides a thermal printer and a micro-controller, he added.
Share prices were traditionally distributed via telegraph lines and printed out on ticker-tape machines.
They were invented in 1867 and some original machines are now considered to be high value antiques.
“I have a keen interest in history and have always been fascinated by ticker-tape machines as a design piece,” Mr Vaughan told the BBC.
Tweets printed by home-built ticker-tape machine
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