For decades the most popular way to track the price of stocks on Wall Street was through ticker tape, the earliest digital communication medium. Stocks and their values were transmitted via telegraph to a small device called a “ticker” that printed onto a thin roll of paper called “ticker tape.” While out of use for over 50 years, the idea of the ticker lives on in scrolling electronic tickers at brokerage walls and at the bottom of most news networks, sometimes two, three and four levels deep.