The proliferation of credit cards happened before the proliferation of the internet. How did credit cards work before the internet?

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The proliferation of credit cards happened before the proliferation of the internet. How did credit cards work before the internet?

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How did checkbooks work before the Internet? Society used to put a pretty high premium on trust. And there was also a cost to dishonesty. Check fraud was a felony. We have optimized accountability out of the equation.