A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
- rbanffy - 21765 sekunder sedanI have the highest regard for these terse, but information-dense displays that enable humans to quickly grasp all information they need to do their jobs, and nothing more. This is also something avionics provide - a modern cockpit displays are a work of art in layering needed information for what is happening at the time, both the dense PFD and the much specific that communicate aircraft status.
- jll29 - 7436 sekunder sedanFor completeness' sake, here's also a history of competitor REUTERS' terminal:
• https://www.thebaron.info/archives/technology/reuter-monitor...
• https://www.thebaron.info/archives/technology/reuters-techni...
- mandevil - 20579 sekunder sedanThe modern Terminal is based on a private fork of Chromium to give it the look and feel of a VT100 terminal, and integrate their private networking and security technologies. The BBT predates HTTP, and backwards compatibility is hugely important to the company- they have a museum where a second-generation Terminal from ~1985 shows the current news, because they are so dedicated to backwards compatibility that they still can support the 1985 hardware.
- nomagicbullet - 3306 sekunder sedan> I especially love that Gross taped his login and password directly on his keyboard, which makes the object more relatable. I may never know what it’s like to manage billions in assets from a Bloomberg Terminal, but I absolutely understand the trial of remembering my passwords.
Wow, what a great history artifact. It is hard to look at this and not wonder where did we go wrong. Everybody _should_ know better, and yet here we are. And now immortalized in the National Museum of American History for all posterity.
- helsinkiandrew - 18954 sekunder sedanRelated: A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079033 (104 comments)
- pulkas - 5111 sekunder sedanAndrew Paprocki: Bloomberg: home-grown server-side scripting
this is a great video to watch if you're curious about how the bloomberg terminal ui was made. https://youtu.be/ODgs0eWAIKc
- bbkane - 10591 sekunder sedanI wish that article showed what the display looks like instead of just the keyboard. Others here have mentioned the lovely information density; I'll have to search elsewhere to see it
- michaelastreiko - 15756 sekunder sedanLove how those dense screens make numbers checkable at a glance. Tiny shops still live that gap—bank lumps vs invoice lines—just without a dedicated terminal.
- Cider9986 - 12173 sekunder sedanHave we made any progress on a cracked version?
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/8aiz67/how_...
- nxobject - 19777 sekunder sedanThe article has an image of terminal keyboard used by a legendary trader... the key-caps are immaculate; the letters haven't faded at all. Amazing. I wonder if they were double-shot...
- johnhamlin - 14625 sekunder sedanI did an internship in finance in college. Worked at a Bloomberg terminal that earned more money than me
- graboid - 16004 sekunder sedanDoes someone know any font that is similar to the closed-source Bloomberg terminal font? I really love that font.
- mhh__ - 15551 sekunder sedanIt may be of interest to some that Bloomberg has an ocaml based DSL built in for pricing exotic derivatives.
- Flex247A - 20619 sekunder sedanAny idea on what technologies/toolkits are used to build Bloomberg terminal?
- hangrybear666 - 21392 sekunder sedanZitron must get on this ASAP it will make his day
- UltraSane - 15321 sekunder sedanAt $32,000 a year per person the Bloomberg Terminal is a deeply unfair advantage for the rich to get richer.
- Zaraif13 - 7971 sekunder sedanNot to sound like a YC fanboy here, but I love how pretty much every great business can be traced back to a start which somehow follows what YC talks about today.
I guess the first principles of what makes great Founders and great businesses from back in the gilded age to today have stayed the same.
- sophietaylor - 21508 sekunder sedan[flagged]
- gitghxst - 20578 sekunder sedanshit I really loved this, was searching for the history of bloomberg these days. thanks for sharing
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