Micropayments were tried, or at least planned, almost right from the beginning of the web, but no one found a way to make them catch on. See error code 402 in

Micropayments were tried, or at least planned, almost right from the beginning of the web, but no one found a way to make them catch on. See error code 402 in the HTTP spec: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.3 https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec1...