Originally Posted by AmeliaG

Does anyone remember the name of the sort of processor who let customers enter their check data and then the processor would snail mail you a stack of customer checks to deposit? Seemed like magic money circa like 1997.

I kind of think Dani from Dani's Hard Drive would have been the first internet talent star, although I recall Cindy Margolis contested this at the time.

I remember some of those earliest sites scanning my magazines to populate their members areas and my partner saying I should try this membership site thing, if there were businesses already making money with our content.