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by ghaff 2163 days ago
>PayPal by no means invented online payments they just popularised it.

I'm not sure it's even so much that PayPal "popularized" online payments as it somewhat democratized them. When I had a small side software business in the early to mid-90s, it wasn't easy/cheap to get setup with a merchant credit card. Mostly, people mailed me checks although at some point I struck a deal with a local BBS operator/reseller for him to take payments for me when necessary.