I'm reading this 94 Batman story, Going Sane, and it got me to thinking that whenever Joker starts to geek out about old comedians he likes (a shtick of his he revisits occasionally) they're all WASPy as fuck, like you never hear about Joker finding Moms Mabley hilarious
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okay fuck you Bruce there's no fucking way there was just some kind of online database of everyone's video rental habits in goddamn 1994pic.twitter.com/PttLFV8oDA
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
To take this Waaaaaay too seriously, in 1994, most small businesses weren’t on the internet at all, but kept computer records on like, old apple2’s and IBMs, so he would have to somehow be accessing the business records directly, possibly by some kind of secret city-wide LAN 1/2
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Replying to @mistressLela @Nymphomachy
Unleeeess this is after the beginning of more widespread adoption of debit cards in daily life, in which case he could literally just be logging their transaction records, which was ball-easy at the time, if you had their IP and a backdoor...
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Replying to @mistressLela
huh, were debit cards not a thing before the nineties?
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @mistressLela
They existed for a long time but only started seeing widespread use in the 90s, when banks got the idea to combine the credit card authentication system with the network of ATM cards directly linked to checking accounts
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When I was a kid you could still hear people asking "cash, credit or check" at checkout counters, debit cards pretty much eliminated the latter (And made it impossible to do what the Dude in The Big Lebowski does and fuck over your local bodega cashier with a postdated check)
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