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[-] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know if they're still around, but when I was a kid and ATMs were still kind of new there were drive thrus at banks where you interacted with a teller using a speaker and a pneumatic tube for sending/receiving.

My mom would let me operate the tube from the back seat, I thought it was cool as shit.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

as a kid i enjoyed rolling up on my bike and pressing the "Send" button and then getting the bored bank teller response on the loudspeaker: "uh... thank you?"

still sad that pneumatic tubes are not used for transportation.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I used to be pretty sure we'd all have personal pneumatic tubes to our homes. Not sure why that hasn't happened, yet.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

it's been a fantastic cinematic device in some of the best, most cheesiest american movies. brazil. and total recall. that's two!

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