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When ecommerce was getting big, I knew a number of people who thought it was absurd. You can't just send money over the Internet, hackers will steal it! You sho
by SpicyLemonZest 3mo ago
When ecommerce was getting big, I knew a number of people who thought it was absurd. You can't just send money over the Internet, hackers will steal it! You should use normal payment methods, like writing "fifteen dollars and 56/100------" on a special piece of paper the bank gave you.
- LogicFailsMe 3mo agoNever thought I'd see the ycombinator peeps deny the existence of the Luddite mindset, but here we are.
- bgilroy26 3mo agoIt's more a post GamerGate understanding of a nerds vs the world narrative framing
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- jjav 3mo ago> When ecommerce was getting big When was that? It was getting huge in the late 90s and we all know now it was indeed the future. But it still took a huge dot.com crash because the valuations got ahead of the curve.
- SpicyLemonZest 3mo agoIn the late 90s. Remember that the first PCI standard wasn't published until 2004; people were largely right to intuit that hackers stealing credit cards was a big problem that wasn't being adequately addressed.