Common enough today, a model of the credit card in it’s current form was first invented by a fiction writer in early 1887. Edward Bellamy, author of “Looking Backward”, mentions the credit card in the context of a utopian and socialist American society of the distant future. His hero falls into a hypnotic time traveling trance and is whisked forward through the time a full century, ending up in Boston in the year 2000, a place where he is able to make purchases using a commonly held piece of plastic. Credit however evolved long before the concept of carrying it around on a piece of plastic. Credit and debt have been the driving force behind achievements ranging from people working their way out of debt to a land-holder, etc…
The advent of wide-spread credit card use was not seen until the 1920’s. At that point in time credit cards were not recognizable as the powerful buying tool they are today. There use was fragmented, and very often just tied to specific merchants rather than specific banks or as it is today. Later, carrying and using a credit card was just a way to use your money when you were away from your banking institution, a...
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