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Michael Aldrich, the inventor of online shopping is bron.
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The dates of important things that happened with the internet.
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J.C.R. Licklider introduces the idea of an 'intergalactic network'. It evolved to what we know as the world wide web.
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Michael Aldrich invents the predecessor to online shopping enabling the first electronic transactions.
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Thomson Holidays uses Aldrich's invention for the first ever B2B transaction.
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72 year old Jane Snowball uses gateshead sis/tesco system and became the first online home shopper.
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Tim Berners-Lee creates the first browser for mainstream use. The world wide web was born.
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The U.S. Billboard chart compiles legal music download for the first time.
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GeoCities, one of the web's first social networking sites helps users create their own websites.
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Amazon launches in the U.S.
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Ebay is founded.
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Google launches.
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Dot-com crash. $5 trillion lost in 2 years.
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Facebook launches at Harvard University.
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The 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee inventing the world wide web.
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Global E-commerce sales top 591 billion euros.
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iTunes downloads hit 10 billion.
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Facebook is the biggest website in the world with 750 million active users.
