A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

The seven-segment display seems like a relic of the nineteen seventies calculator era—remember those classic jokes about upside-down numbers? But Hackaday suggests the technology has deeper roots. In a brief history, the site explores when these humble seven-segment displays really came from, and why we've been so wrong about their origins.

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