I have no doubt there were many before PayPal. If you weren't looking for porn or looking to pay for it then there weren't a lot of options. Especially, in the

I have no doubt there were many before PayPal. If you weren't looking for porn or looking to pay for it then there weren't a lot of options. Especially, in the early days of the WWW. When there was an actual yellow pages of the entirety of the web.