For those of you that I have told that I invented paypal here is the proof.
The service was called MagicButton and here is a directory listing of the original pages that we used to sell it. I also did a whois on paypal.com to show that their domain was created after we had been doing it all year.
My Files:
baxman@snow:~/public_html/magicbutton$ ls -l
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 baxman users 2441 Jun 4 1999 ALLFIELDS.HTML
-rw-r--r-- 1 baxman users 3987 Jan 21 1999 disclaimer.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 baxman users 6609 Jan 21 1999 faq.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 baxman users 890 Jan 21 1999 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 baxman users 4961 May 21 2001 indexfly.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 baxman users 5640 Jan 21 1999 indexmb.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 baxman users 1780 Jun 20 1999 secure.html
The Whois:
baxman@snow:~/public_html/magicbutton$ whois paypal.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
IP Address: 69.41.185.207
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
Server Name: PAYPAL.COM.SV04.COM
IP Address: 65.110.74.83
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
Domain Name: PAYPAL.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server: PPNS1.DEN.PAYPAL.COM
Name Server: PPNS1.PHX.PAYPAL.COM
Name Server: PPNS2.DEN.PAYPAL.COM
Name Server: PPNS2.PHX.PAYPAL.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Status: serverTransferProhibited
Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 18-nov-2008
Creation Date: 15-jul-1999
Expiration Date: 15-jul-2018
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Great
Paypal should be called 'payClint'!