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1979: Michael Aldrich, a British innovator, built videotex, platform for online shopping. It failed.
1982: France Telecom introduced Minitel, became a big hit.
1987: Swreg created the first online merchant account to help software developers sell their solutions.
1990: Tim-Berners Lee created World Wide Web.
1994: Netscape release Navigator, a graphical browser that used an encryption system for secure online transaction.
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1997: Dell became the first company to reap 1M sales.
1998: Google was created by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin.
1999: Napster, a P2P file sharing website, was launched
2000: dot-com bubble burst.
2002: Paypal was acquired by e-Bay for 1.5M
2003: Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg
2006: Google bought Youtube.
2007: Adwords earned 21B in revenues.
2009: Yahoo! And Bing challenged Google’s dominance.
2010: Groupon, a group buying website rejected a 6B from Google.
2011: GSI Commerce was acquired by eBay for 200B
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