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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by pjmlp on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:08PM (#46965173)
From what I know from Minitel, the same Internet before the Internet applies.

I was buying tickets on MB, before it became common place in the Internet.

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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by rkomorn on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:56PM (#46965899)
Could you search for tickets and such on MB?

All the stuff I'm familiar with is only payments (with entity and reference).

Now that I think about it, you could search for things on Minitel but I don't remember if payments were made as phone charges or if they could also be done with transfers.

Minitel was so prohibitively expensive to use (just about every service cost multiple francs per minute), I didn't do much with it.

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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by pjmlp on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @05:40PM (#46967999)
Yes, for concerts, matches, CP (including the seat on IC/Alfa).

https://immolusitania.ch/the-real-deal-with-atm-machines-in-...

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