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These kinds of posts are always fascinating to me, as someone who had to move heaven and earth to get a graphics tablet and a PC that could run XP and Blender c
by underlipton 2y ago
These kinds of posts are always fascinating to me, as someone who had to move heaven and earth to get a graphics tablet and a PC that could run XP and Blender c. 2006. It's not like we were in particularly dire straits financially, and were on the more rational side of "overly sheltered" (having known people who couldn't attend school clubs or who had a parent hovering over their shoulder every time they got online), but the freedom and access some of y'all had is just... hard for me to fathom. Like, whose credit card were you using??
- ganoushoreilly 2y agoFor some of the stuff in the early days we could mail cashiers checks with the order number, bypassing need for credit card. Sure it took longer, but you could still buy a lot of stuff that way.
- boomboomsubban 2y agoBefore eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, buying something then mailing the person a check was fairly common.
- icameron 2y agoYou could buy western union money orders for 45 cents at the minimart, and mail it to the seller with the item number. Sometimes even send cash.