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you know, sometimes I wonder how the internet would look like today if every time you loaded content from a server some money would automatically go their way (
by TremendousJudge 8y ago
you know, sometimes I wonder how the internet would look like today if every time you loaded content from a server some money would automatically go their way (a tiny payment compensating for server time of sorts)
- viraptor 8y agoThat's similar to what https://flattr.com/ https://flattr.com/ tried. (You could set it to auto-pay visited pages)
- walshemj 8y agoAh the PRESTEL / Dialcom model pay per page and or minute *narrator voice" it didn't turn out well- I should know I was there if you don believe me ask Vint Cerf
- Nasrudith 8y agoI suspect even worse. People would be less willing to try new things with an upfront cost while clickbait would be even more incentivized as they don't even have to worry about not offending advertisers.