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Bubble Wrap began as wallpaper nobody wanted. 🫧
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Dark HistoryOct 09, 2026

Bubble Wrap began as wallpaper nobody wanted. 🫧

Bubble Wrap began as wallpaper nobody wanted. 🫧 . . . In 1957, Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes sealed 2 plastic shower curtains together, trapping bubbles inside. Their textured wallpaper failed, as did a greenhouse-insulation pitch. By 1960, IBM was using the rejected décor to protect its 1401 computers.

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Smithsonian Magazine, 2015, 'The Accidental Invention of Bubble Wrap'

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