<![CDATA[Gizmodo: 1935 twitter]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: 1935 twitter]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/1935twitter http://gizmodo.com/tag/1935twitter <![CDATA[Olde Timey Notificator Machine Twitters Like It's 1935 [Retromodo]]]> Featured in a 1935 issue of awesome futurist-comic-book-slash-science-mag Modern Mechanix, the Notificator is almost certainly the world's first Twitter client.

According to the article, the Notificator was placed in train stations—the depression-era equivalent of the internet, apparently—so that travelers could post ephemeral message for friends, families or passers-by.

I like to imagine 1935 Twitter as more charming and erudite than the 2009 Twitter, but I'm pretty sure it just had more messages about trains. [Infomark via AdamCrowe via Digg]

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