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mooreds on May 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifi...

We used CyberCash (I think) and Authorize.net, which were to Stripe as Altavista was to Google search.

That is to say that even 20 years ago there were middlemen in the payments space, they just were pretty horrendous to work with.

edoceo on May 13, 2021 [–]

> Authorize.net

Arrreghhjh!!

Brings back horrible memories from the .com bubble for me.

F authorize.net.

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