I remember Cybercash! They were no Stripe, to be sure, although I don't remember ever having problems with their functionality or reliability. I wonder what his issues were?
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
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Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#22The best thing about old site designs is for me their small footprint. The whole payload of viaweb is 62.5kb, a nice size for fitting in the 64kbps of ISDN. Why do I think this is relevant today? In many countries like Germany for example it is common to have a mobile traffic upper limit around between 200mb and 512mb per month. After that you only get GPRS. Use your smartphone for a week with only 2G (53.6kbps), to…
Hate to be pedantic, but "kbps" is actually kiloBITS per second, and including packet headers, it would take closer to 10 seconds on an ISDN line.