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History of Credit Cards

Who popularized the phrase “credit card”?

A nineteenth century author named Edward Bellamy (1850–1898), writing in his Utopian sci-fi novel Looking Backward, used the word credit card 11 times. His book, which describes a society in the year 2000, sold more than one million copies.



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