Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?

Re:Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what... by ryeguy_24 on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:33PM (#27667666)

I might have read somewhere that the original design of HTTP allowed for transactions to occur. This free point is a big one. Once Apple set the price of 0.99 for an app it really dropped the market price for software. It's funny that there is so little different between enterprise software and consumer apps except for a monstrous difference in price point. Funny thing is, consumer apps are sometimes better.

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Re:Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what... by mprovost on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:04PM (#27668826)

The 402 HTTP status code is "Payment Required". At one time people envisioned micropayments etc but it never went anywhere.

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Re:Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what... by mjevans on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:18PM (#27669604)

Transaction fees are what kill this. That and moral police / "fraud" charge-backs caused by insufficient user authentication.

I also don't want to be nickle and dimed to death, given the transaction fees there's a huge push to subscriptions and other models. Where if I could instead just pay exactly what a generic ad I'd _never_ click on anyway pays to get placed (like 0.00001 dollars for all the ads on a webpage stuffed with them) I might actually pay instead of using adblock for all of the security, usability, and bandwidth saving reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what... by dublin on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:43AM (#27677521)

There have been many micropayments schemes over the years. IIRC, there was a decent one slightly cleverly called "Millicent" developed by DEC and pushed in the early Internet days... (Then there were the various pre-bitcoin internet banks/e-cash outfits - First Virtual, eGold, etc....)

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