The Start Of Online Shopping
While online shopping was huge enough before 2020, it has become truly mainstream due to the push provided by the pandemic.
- It started in Gateshead, England, when an old lady used the Videotex system, an interactive computer terminal connected to the TV, to order for groceries (margarine, cornflakes and eggs) using the remote control, back in 1984.
- In 1994, the first online marketplace was set up, and was called NetMarket, and even had advanced encryption.
- The first purchase in cyberspace using technology similar to the present was an audio CD of the artist Sting.
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