A timeline of events on the history of E-commerce.
Created by KittySin on Jan 26, 2011
Last updated: 01/28/11 at 10:22 AM
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2010 is expected to reach $173 billion in e-commerce sales, an increase of 7 percent over 2009. This is due to an improvement in the economy mixed with new e-commerce trends like mobile commerce, social commerce, group buying, and private sample sale sites.
Yahoo and Bing teamed up to better compete with Google. While the full merger is still taking place, soon Yahoo will adopt the Bing algorithm, making search results almost the same across the two search engines. Near the end of 2009, Facebook made headway in traffic by becoming the site with more traffic than Google.
The iPhone was introduced with full web browsing, apps, and advancing mCommerce.
Google bought YouTube. iTunes became the largest digital music retailer with over 1 billion downloads.
Facebook began as a college website called Facemash, which let students rate whether or not other students on campus were good looking. At the same time, Amazon posted its first ever profitable year. Finally, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 changed email marketing forever by ruling that marketers “can spam” as long as they follow certain standards.
Ebay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion. Meanwhile, niche retail start ups CSN stores and NetShops created the concept of selling products through several target domains rather than a central portal.
Amazon.com creates the first mobile e-commerce.
The dot-com bust. osCommerce is started in Germany as the exhchange project.
The US Supreme Court ruled that domain names are property.
The US Postal Service entered the e-commerce space by selling stamps electronically through e-stamp. At the same time, two Standford students began their plans for world domination by launching Google.
Dell.com became the first company to make $1,000,000 in online sales.
The dot-com bubble began with the IPO of Netscape. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos sat in a garage in Bellevue, WA to start Amazon.com. South of Bezos in California, eBay began as “AuctionWeb.” Craigslist launched and VeriSign launched as a way to verify merchants online.
This was a big year of firsts for e-commerce. Netscape Navigator released their browser, SSL encryption became a reality (ensuring secure online sales), Pizza Hut had the first recorded Internet sale (a peperoni & mushroom pizza with extra cheese), the 1st online bank opened, the first e-commerce solutions are built for merchants to sell online, and the first ever email spam occurred (known as the Green Card Spam)
J.H. Snider and Terra Siporyn published Future Shop: How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy. This book was an amazing predictor of the future of e-commerce.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) lifted restrictions on the commercial use of the NET, which cleared the way for e-commerce.
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser using a NeXT computer, thus creating the World Wide Web.
Peapod brings the grocery store to the home PC.
The first electronic merchant account was created by Swreg. It was created so that software developers could sell their solutions online.
Nissan UK sells and with credit checking to customers online from dealers' lots.
Jane Snowball, age 72, was the first ever online home shopper. She used the Gateshead SIS/Tesco System to buy online.
France Telecom invents Minitel – Considered the world’s most successful pre-World Wide Web online services. Users could make online purchases, train reservations, and more through the Videotex online service, accessible through telephone lines.
Thomson Holidays submitted the first ever B2B electronic transaction using online technology. Thomson Holidays was a UK based travel operator that used online technology to help users book travel and pay.
Michale Aldrich invents online shopping: Aldrich was a British inventor who created a number of things including the Teleputer, which was a computer-based entertainment center. In 1979 he developed a predecessor of online shopping to enable online transaction processing for B2C and B2B needs.
E-commerce begins. It is then called Electronic Date Interchange and it permits companies to carry out electronic transfers.
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