{"id":20710,"date":"2025-03-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=20710"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:26:21","slug":"short-history-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/short-history-credit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"A short history of the credit card"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did you know that the first person to predict the appearance of credit cards was the writer Edward Bellamy in 1888? We have talked about the history of the credit card on several occasions at <\/b>La Pla\u00e7a<\/b><\/a>. Now, we are going to review it again with our agent 11Onze Jennifer Roca.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

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The first credit card was created in 1914 by the Western Union company for its most select clients with the idea of offering them credit without surcharge. But <\/span>it was Frank McNamara, in 1949 in New York, who had the idea of a universal card<\/b> with two other friends, when he realised that he had left his money at home and his wife had to carry his wallet to pay for dinner. Do you want to know all the details of the story? Watch the video!<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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