15 - 20 years ago there were RentACoder, oDesk and others. Doing contract work on some online platform was a thing way before Uber was even in basic idea phase.

15 - 20 years ago there were RentACoder, oDesk and others. Doing contract work on some online platform was a thing way before Uber was even in basic idea phase. Fivver and the likes are just the current iteration.