Thank you for this, perspective is hard for those that weren't there. If you think these people were rubes for not understanding what a Social Security Number was for, consider not only did they not have a credit card, they didn't even need to apply for a Blockbuster card. Or maybe the best way of understanding how different the world was: some yutz thought it would be a good idea to put his secretary's SSN on a demo card instead of zeroes.

We can all laugh right up until we sign up for a site built by someone who doesn't know credit card companies offer test numbers or doesn't understand the value of hashing passwords.