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A Brief History of Closed Captioning

Whether you’ve encountered its unmistakable white text on black background at the gym, in a bar, or on the couch, you’re familiar with closed captioning. Here’s a brief history of the technology that has provided a (mostly accurate) transcript of television programming for nearly 40 years. Television captioning begins – with Julia Child The nation’s first captioning [...]