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Hidden Origins

How Rolodexes Rose, Then Lost Its Place

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Long Before the Hum of Server Farms or the Tap of a Touchscreen Long before the hum of server farms or the tap of a touchscreen, the pulse of American commerce beat within the pages of pocket-sized notebooks and static card files. In the mid-twentieth century,