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That'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 buil
by raytopia 3y ago
That'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.