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Why Google, Netflix and cannabis dispensaries are using this century-old sign technology – The split-flap display has left the train station. Standing in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris in 2012, Dorrian Porter was transfixed by a sign. The stations arrivals and departures boarda classic split-flap analog sign that constantly turns its wheels of characters, click-clacking updated information on trains, tracks, …
