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Did you know that…
The term "credit card" first appeared in the realm of science fiction. It was introduced by author Edward Bellamy in his 1888 novel *Looking Backward*. In this utopian novel set in the year 2000, Bellamy describes a future society where people use a form of "credit card" to make purchases. This early concept of a credit card is different from what we use today but laid the groundwork for the idea of a card-based payment system.
Bellamy's vision involved a system where citizens could access their share of the nation's wealth through a card that debited from their government-provided credit, rather than borrowing money as in modern credit card systems.
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