Believe it or not, the seven segment display was actually invented in 1903. Early applications in signal panels used incandescent bulbs. The seven segment display was originally designed to display Arabic numerals. It was never meant for the Chinese characters that represent numbers. However, Twitch gamer Pekerogu, who is learning Japanese and is a design enthusiast, wanted to see if he could create a segmented display that could handle the Chinese numerical characters.
