E-Commerce History

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Dates

Events
1960's
 Introduction of EDI and EFT (not succesful)
Development of ARPANET (the military)
1971
 Development of TIP Protocol which permitted connections to ARPANET (universities and resources)
1982
 ARPANET switch to TCP/IP
1984
 ANSI created ASCX12. Also led to other electronic money transactions such as ATM, Credit Cards, and PhoneBanking
Mid 1980's
 Compuserve launched a new service Electronic Mall (not succesful)
1990
 Tim Berners-Lee proposed the 1st Web Browser
Internet was launched public
1991
 NSF open the doors for electronic commerce
1993
 Mosaic was introduced by M.Anderseen
1994
 Mosaic was transformed into Netscape. (Includes a security protocol (SSL))
1995
 VeriSing developed digital IDS First sale on Amazon.com by Jeff Bezos
1996
 Pierre Omidyar introduced a website called AuctionWeb
1997
 On September 1997 e-Bay had expanded worldwide
1998
 ADSL allowed users of the web to access internet speeds at higher bandwiths
2008
 Omidyar put on-line buying and selling in the hands of the public