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That's such a great story and such a classic case of being just ahead of the curve but in the wrong corner of the world.

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Rodeoclash 16 hours ago | parent [-]

I worked in a digital technology company in Wellington in the 90s and one of our key technologies that we sold was a hosted form on a secure (remember, this is the era that https was not common) website to collect credit card payments. We were a proto Stripe in the year 1999 but totally in the wrong place in the world to take advantage of it.

	▲	ska 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		May have been the wrong time too. 1999 was chock full of companies that failed to get traction and died during the dot-com collapse, but variants became much more successful 20 years later. Much of this was mostly waiting in infrastructure I suspect.