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Well we had https ("check for the lock icon") back then, you could pay for plenty of things with credit cards online. Of course there was some fear of it among

by nicky0 6y ago

Well we had https ("check for the lock icon") back then, you could pay for plenty of things with credit cards online. Of course there was some fear of it among the general public. PayPal by no means invented online payments they just popularised it.

ghaff 6y ago
>PayPal by no means invented online payments they just popularised it. I'm not sure it's even so much that PayPal "popularized" online payments as it somewhat democratized them. When I had a small side software business in the early to mid-90s, it wasn't easy/cheap to get setup with a merchant credit card. Mostly, people mailed me checks although at some point I struck a deal with a local BBS operator/reseller for him to take payments for me when necessary.