Ever wonder how a multibillion dollar company starts out
 

Here you go, the beginnings of PayPal.

http://web.archive.org/web/199911281...com/index.html

cool link, thanks man:thumbsup

nice! wonder if they all drive ferraris now

haha - "beam" money

scotty, beam my funds! :1orglaugh

A few of them do. Two of my friends are the oens that started it, the ex-CEO drives a CLK 320 and my other friend drives an Audi. But the old CEO of x.com, which was later bought out by PayPal, had a McLaren, but crashed it.

:1orglaugh

hahah, nice to see even the gretest start somewhere.

Heh, anyone remember "x.com"? What a waste of a domain. And Yes, there is a a tye-in here. :thumbsup

I just barely remember x.com. I pretty much always remember it redirecting to paypal. The guy who started x.com is now funding some space thing, like those space tours where civilians can buy a ride into space. Needless to say he made out pretty fucking well. :2 cents:

does that happen a lot?
i never heard much about it
i know civilians can go in the planes in russia with zero G

I remember when I was kid hearing they were gonna start selling tickets to the moon..they first person to buy a ticket was Michael Jackson

they should have taken him up and left him there

Only a couple people have gone into space I think, and it was through a Russian program if I remember correctly. This guy is trying to start similar in the United States. Also, the people who went into space already did it through the Russian government I think, whereas this guy is trying to do it as a private company.

Maybe Michael Jackson can get the honor of going first, and being the first person lef tin space on "accident." :)

This is where I start feeling old, I remember being part of the beta on beaming money between Palm Pilots and envisioning the day when I can stop carrying a wallet, and just beam the parking meter, or soda machine and it would be debited out of my bank account.

Oh well, its just like every other program out there, who would have thought I would have a Paypal debit card back then.

http://web.archive.org/web/199811111...://google.com/

Even better. Motherfuckers, look how far they've come!

"Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger) "

No kidding:

http://web.archive.org/web/199811111....stanford.edu/

someone found the way back machine

Ever wonder how a multibillion dollar company starts out ?


One man's idea.