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In the early 90s there was a site that sold CDs via Telnet. You'd telnet in, navigate their menu to select your CDs, and then check out. You know, give it your
by jghn 3y ago
In the early 90s there was a site that sold CDs via Telnet. You'd telnet in, navigate their menu to select your CDs, and then check out. You know, give it your credit card number over Telnet as one does. Their selection was awesome compared to the standard stores of the day.
I believe it was called cdconnection.com, and then it was replaced with a more recognizable to modern eyes web based store by the mid-90s.
- raytopia 3y agoThat's auper interesting I wonder how much e-commerce happened over telnet before the world wide web took off. Reading this though makes me want to try and build a website that uses Telnet. As an aside I've always wondered if someone has tried building something like stripe but you can check out in your terminal.
- jghn 3y agoAnother one I remember was a copycat of the one I mentioned before, but specifically focused on importing CDs to the US. I remember that one because if I couldn't find one on the main site, I'd go there. I'm sure there were others, but can't remember if I was aware of any of them. It seems absolutely bonkers now to do those kinds of transactions over telnet, but it was the early 90s so hey.