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These incredible images show how Wall Street traded before the Bloomberg terminal

Elena HolodnyDec 27, 2015, 17:50 IST

YouTubeEver hear of curb trading?

Today's traders are spoiled by their Bloomberg terminals.

Back in the day, before broadband fired live quotes and analysis straight to our smartphones, people used to read bid-ask spreads off of chalkboards and historical data off of miles of ticker tape.

We decided to go back in time to see how trading was done in the pre-Bloomberg terminal era. Even before ticker tape was a thing.With the help of images from the Museum of American Finance in New York, we put together a brief, visual history of trading technology, from ticker tape to the present. Editor's Note: Former Business Insider writer Rob Wile contributed to the original version of this feature.