A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
History of TechnologyMagazineArticleComputingPast Forward A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global marketsAllison Marsh2h6 min readAllison Marsh is a professor at the University of South Carolina and the…
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| Original publisher | IEEE Spectrum |
| Canonical URL | https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:34:07 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T15:57:01.649Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T15:57:01.649Z |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Cluster | i8_80b6886N3 · 1 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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History of TechnologyMagazineArticleComputingPast Forward A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global marketsAllison Marsh2h6 min readAllison Marsh is a professor at the University of South Carolina and the codirector of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society.This early 1990s keyboard for the Bloomberg Terminal featured a trackball, speaker, and headphone and microphone ports. National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Institution {"customDimensions": {"5":"Allison Marsh","11":2677931987,"7":"past-forward, type-departments, wall-street, financial-markets, michael-bloomberg, fintech","10":"wall-street","6":"tech-history","8":"09/30/2026"}, "post": {"id": 2677931987, "providerId": 0,…
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