Selling on the internet via ssh!

Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
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Found this on HN, where it has 387 comments, including interesting tips about the use of ssh and a historical note about selling CDs and books over telnet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227208
https://www.terminal.shop/

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  • chadsixchadsix Services Provider

    it says it's sold out... how does payment work?

    Start self hosting with an external IP with IPv6rs.
    The only thing between your host and your data is trust. Trust is not security.

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    The HN discussion now has 404 comments!

    Discussion about how payments might work is in the HN thread beginning with this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228751

    Further down, there is an interesting tidbit about how Stripe got started:

    samwillis 7 days ago | root | parent | prev | next [–]

Interestingly Stripe started life as /dev/payments and I seem to remember the first iteration was an agent on your server that literally processed card payments when you wrote the details to /dev/payments
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ppbjj 7 days ago | root | parent | next [–]

That's awesome
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niutech 4 days ago | root | parent | prev | next [–]

You can still find the source code here: https://github.com/benweissmann/dev-payments
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  • aRNoLDaRNoLD OG

    creative, or old fashioned?

  • berrybyteberrybyte

    https://tomorrow.fm/90

    Great podcast too describing the origin story and some great insights in the startup industry.

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