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Spam-a-lot
Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term %u201Cspamming%u201D to the Internet vocabulary. -
Pizza Around the Net
Netscape releases the Navigator browser in October under the code name Mozilla. Pizza Hut offers pizza ordering on its Web page. The first online bank opens. Attempts to offer flower delivery and magazine subscriptions online. Adult materials also becomes commercially available, as do cars and bikes. Netscape 1.0 is introduced in late 1994 SSL encryption that made transactions secure. -
Dynamic Progress
Sun Microsystems releases the Internet programming language called Java. -
The Internet Dynamo - Amazon
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. eBay is founded by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb. -
E-mail vs. Snail Mail
Electronic postal stamps can be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web. -
Shopping Carts: Outdated
%u201CE-commerce%u201D becomes the new buzzword as Internet shopping rapidly spreads. -
AOL > Ted Turner
America Online buys Time Warner for $16 billion. It%u2019s the biggest merger of all time. -
E-Trampled
Colorado Rockies' computer system crashes when it receives 8.5 million hits within the first 90 minutes of World Series ticket sales. -
Dedicated Downloading
Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads. -
Google > Microsoft
Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand," and also is the most visited Web site.