The nineties was a funny time for online commerce. I remember listing a guitar on a used gear website called Daddy’s Junky Music (this was before eBay). The buyer responded with an email asking for pictures, which I took with a disposable film camera and had developed at one of those kiosks and then snail mailed to him.
General Manager of a Fortune 100 division decided customers would happily pay a $50 fee for bring able to order via “the information superhighway” because that was a fraction of the cost of writing a purchase order. I told him he’d be making it would be free within six months. I should have said “weeks”