{"id":3888,"date":"2019-01-14T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:33:09","slug":"lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Take a Look at The Historical Timeline of E Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/e-commerce-history.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/e-commerce-history.jpg\" alt=\" e-commerce history \" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/e-commerce-history.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/e-commerce-history-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything, including e-commerce, has some form of a historical timeline. That being said, did you know that e-commerce history dates back 50 years? It\u2019s crazy to think that the activity of buying and selling products and services through the use of the internet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/who-invented-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">predates the modern online world<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Now that you\u2019re wowed with technological excitement, let\u2019s break down the bygone times of e-commerce development. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/#1969_to_1979\" >1969 to 1979<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/#1982_to_1992\" >1982 to 1992<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/#1994_to_2000\" >1994 to 2000<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/#2003\" >2003<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/#2005\" >2005<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/#2011\" >2011<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/lets-take-a-look-at-the-historical-timeline-of-ecommerce\/#2017\" >2017<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1969_to_1979\"><\/span><b>1969 to 1979 <\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This decade consisted of the founding of an early technology company that was built utilizing a dial-up connection. CompuServe \u2014 established by Dr. John R. Goltz and Jeffrey Wilkins \u2014 introduced some of the earliest forms of email and internet connectivity to the public. While English inventor <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldricharchive.com\/inventors_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Aldrich<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also introduced online shopping by connecting a modified TB to a transaction-processing computer via a telephone line. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1982_to_1992\"><\/span><b>1982 to 1992<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1982, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldcomputerexchange.org\/boston-ma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boston Computer Exchange<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> launched and the world\u2019s first e-commerce company was born. Its primary function was to serve as an online market for people who were interested in selling their used computers. As the e-commerce history continued, an online bookstore was born in 1992. Book Stacks Unlimited launched three years before Amazon was introduced and was originally in a dial-up bulletin board format. The site switched over to the internet in 1994. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1994_to_2000\"><\/span><b>1994 to 2000<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netscape Navigator, a web browsing tool was created and introduced in 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. It soon became the primary web browser for the Windows platform before the rise of Google. A year later, Amazon and eBay launched, primarily as platforms for books, and quickly grew into massive, global e-commerce platforms. Then, after three years, PayPal made its debut as e-commerce\u2019s first money transferring tool. By the start of the 21st century, Google AdWords would be introduced in order to help e-commerce businesses advertise using the Google search tool. It wasn\u2019t long before growing companies adopted the tool in a pay-per-click (PPC) context. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2003\"><\/span><b>2003<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the big e-commerce players, Zen Cart, was launched this year in order to aid storefront services with selling their products online. It was and still is known for being a PHP-based management system that uses MySQL database and HTML components. Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce company, launched a mere year later while Magento (2008) and BigCommerce (2009) took the stage a few years after that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2005\"><\/span><b>2005<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was the year that Amazon introduced Amazon Prime as a way for customers to get free two-day shipping for an annual flat fee. Etsy was also launched as a means for crafters and small businesses to sell their goods through a reliable online marketplace. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2011\"><\/span><b>2011<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook implemented its early advertising opportunities to business owners which allowed them to pay for campaigns in order to reach specific audiences using the social network. Google Wallet was also introduced as a person-to-person payment service through mobile devices. Today Google Wallet is known as Google Pay. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2017\"><\/span><b>2017<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only two years ago, Instagram Shopping launched allowing social users to immediately click and buy a product directly from that company&#8217;s page. Also, in 2017 e-commerce growth skyrocketed with a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/record-breaking-cyber-monday-sales-total-659-billion\/story?id=51431412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">breaking record in online sales<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Cyber Monday. E-commerce businesses sold $6.5 billion in the US, with $2 billion in sales just made on mobile devices. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you know any other fun facts that fit into the e-commerce history timeline that we\u2019ve created? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything, including e-commerce, has some form of a historical timeline. That being said, did you know that e-commerce history dates back 50 years? It\u2019s crazy to think that the activity of buying and selling products and services through the use of the internet predates the modern online world. 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