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E-Commerce Timeline

By deiadennis

  • The Creation of e-mail

    Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address. Businesses now could communicate with eachother quicker than before.

  • The World's First Cyberthreat

    A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. This slowed down production. It showed business how vulnerable they were. This event caused businesses to strengthen the safety on the internet and opened up a new cyber security career field.

  • The Navigation Browser is Born

    Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark start Netscape Communications. They introduce the Navigator browser.

  • New Competition

    CompuServe, America Online, and Prodigy start providing dial-up Internet access.

  • Google Opens Up

    Google opens its first office, in California.

  • Napster: Free Entertainment

    College student Shawn Fanning invents Napster, a computer application that allows users to swap music over the Internet.

  • Myspace is Born

    MySpace.com is launched forever changing how people will connect and communicate with eachother.

  • Apple Invents an Idea

    It's estimated that Internet users illegally download about 2.6 billion music files each month.Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people to download songs for 99 cents each.

  • E-Commerce is At an all time high

    Online spending reaches a record high—$117 billion in 2004, a 26% increase over 2003.

  • Competition is Rising

    In a move to challenge Google's dominance of search and advertising on the Internet, software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.

  • Secure Sites Aren't so Secure

    A coding error discovered in April in OpenSSL, encryption software that makes transactions between a computer and a remote secure, makes users vulnerable to having their usernames, passwords, and personal information stolen. Millions of banks, Internet commerce companies, email services, government sites, and social media sites rely on OpenSSL to conduct secure transactions. The coding error was made in 2012. Computer security experts encourage computer users to change their passwords.