‘teleshopping’
Michael Aldridge invents ‘teleshopping’, a system connecting the television and a computer via a telephone line.
1979‘teleshopping’
The Boston Computer Exchange
The Boston Computer Exchange created an online market for the buying and selling of computers.
1982The Boston Computer Exchange
Minitel
Minitel was a little box that the French connected via their phone line to get access to shopping, gaming, dating and even event bookings. Before its time but unfortunately, only the French have ever heard of it.
1980sMinitel
WWW
World Wide Web is invented by Tim Berners-Lee during his work at CERN , pushed by his need to communicate more effectively with his colleagues in other universities and institutions around the world.
1989WWW
Websites
Code to set up websites and create software is made public. Website domain registrations increase.
1991Websites
The First Online Book Shop
Book Stacks Unlimited is the first online book shop.
1992The First Online Book Shop
Amazon
Jeff Bezos launches amazon.com.
1995Amazon
SSL
SSL protocol makes using the internet more secure and the number of domain registrations shoots up.
1995SSL
eBay
eBay is set up
1995eBay
PayPal
PayPal arrives on the scene as a payment system for e-commerce.
1998PayPal
Alibaba
Alibaba is established in China.
1999Alibaba
Global e-Commerce
The value of global e-commerce is put at $150 billion.
1999Global e-Commerce
Facebook first enters our lives.
2004Cyber Monday
Amazon introduces Prime and Cyber Monday is born.
2005Cyber Monday
Apple Pay
Apple Pay arrives.
2014Apple Pay
E-commerce Around the Globe
E-commerce around the globe is now valued at $2.304 trillion.
2017