A timeline for the development of e-commerce:
1982: Minitel was introduced nationwide in
France by
France Télécom and used for online ordering.
1983:
California State Assembly holds first hearing on "electronic commerce" in
Volcano, California.[4]
Testifying are
CPUC,
MCI Mail,
Prodigy, CompuServe,
Volcano Telephone, and
Pacific Telesis. (Not permitted to testify is
Quantum Technology, later to become
AOL.)
1984:
Gateshead SIS/
Tesco is first
B2C online shopping system [5] and Mrs
Snowball, 72, is the first online home shopper[6]
1984: In
April 1984, CompuServe launches the
Electronic Mall in the
USA and
Canada. It is the first comprehensive electronic commerce service.[7]
1984:
California becomes first
US state to enact an
Electronic Commerce Act defining basic consumer rights online.[citation needed]
1990:
Tim Berners-Lee writes the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, using a NeXT computer.[8]
1992:
Book Stacks Unlimited in
Cleveland opens a commercial sales website (www.books.com) selling books online with credit card processing.
1992:
St. Martin's Press publishes
J.H. Snider and
Terra Ziporyn's
Future Shop: How
New Technologies Will
Change the Way We
Shop and What We Buy.[9]
1992:
Terry Brownell launches a fully graphical, iconic navigated
Bulletin board system online shopping using RoboBOARD/FX.
1993: Paget
Press releases edition
No. 3 of the first[citation needed] AppStore, The
Electronic AppWrapper[10]
1994:
Netscape releases the
Navigator browser in October under the code name Mozilla. Netscape
1.0 is introduced in late 1994 with
SSL encryption that made transactions secure.
1995:
The US National Science Foundation lifts its former strict prohibition of commercial enterprise on the
Internet.[11]
1995: Thursday 27
April 1995, the purchase of a book by
Paul Stanfield,
Product Manager for CompuServe UK, from
W H Smith's shop within
CompuServe's UK Shopping Centre is the
UK's first national online shopping service secure transaction. The shopping service at launch featured W H
Smith, Tesco,
Virgin Megastores/Our
Price,
Great Universal Stores (
GUS), Interflora,
Dixons Retail,
Past Times, PC
World (retailer) and
Innovations.
1995:
Jeff Bezos launches
Amazon.com and the first commercial-free
24-hour, internet-only radio stations,
Radio HK and NetRadio start broadcasting.
Dell and
Cisco begin to aggressively use Internet for commercial transactions.[citation needed] eBay is founded by computer programmer
Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb.
1996: IndiaMART
B2B marketplace established in
India.
1996: ECPlaza B2B marketplace established in
Korea.
1996: Sellerdeck, formerly Actinic, the UK's first
PC/LAN e-commerce platform established.[citation needed]
1998: Electronic postal stamps can be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web.[12]
1999:
Alibaba Group is established in
China.
Business.com sold for
US $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was purchased in
1997 for US $149,
000. The peer-to-peer filesharing software Napster launches.
ATG Stores launches to sell decorative items for the home online.
2000: The dot-com bust.
2001:
Alibaba.com achieved profitability in
December 2001.
2002: eBay acquires PayPal for $1.5 billion.[13] Niche retail companies Wayfair and NetShops are founded with the concept of selling products through several targeted domains, rather than a central portal.
2003: Amazon.com posts first yearly profit.
2004: DHgate.com,
China's first online b2b transaction platform, is established, forcing other b2b sites to move away from the "yellow pages" model.[14]
2007: Business.com acquired by
R.H. Donnelley for $345 million.[15]
2009: Zappos.com acquired by Amazon.com for $928 million.[16] Retail
Convergence,
operator of private sale website RueLaLa.com, acquired by
GSI Commerce for $
180 million, plus up to $170 million in earn-out payments based on performance through
2012.[17]
2010: Groupon reportedly rejects a $6 billion offer from
Google.
Instead, the group buying websites went ahead with an
IPO on
4 November 2011. It was the largest IPO since Google.[18][19]
2011: Quidsi.com, parent company of Diapers.com, acquired by Amazon.com for $
500 million in cash plus $45 million in debt and other obligations.[20] GSI Commerce, a company specializing in creating, developing and running online shopping sites for brick and mortar businesses, acquired by eBay for $
2.4 billion.[21]
2012: US eCommerce and
Online Retail sales projected to reach $226 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2011
.[22]
2012: US eCommerce and Online Retail holiday sales reach $33.8 billion, up 13 percent.[23]
2014: Overstock.com processes over $1 million in
Bitcoin sales.[24]
India's e-commerce industry is estimated to have grown more than 30% from a year earlier to $12.6 billion in
2013.
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