Along with the creation of the world-wide-web in the 1990s, came along e-commerce or online shopping but before that, in 1982, a company called, Minitel was successful in creating an online market (before the www) using telephone lines to sell their computer products. In 1987 Swerg created a merchant account where which they could sell their products. In 1994 however SSL which was a encryption of data which allowed for a more secure data. I With secure data came the first online store which was a German store called Intershop and in 1995 came the highly popular online shop, Amazon. In 1996 came the launch of the eBay store. Until recent, online shopping has become really popular and more efficient. With companies like UPS and FedEx orders arrive a lot faster. Today there really isn't a store that doesn't at least have an online website which allows the customer to browse products and more often than not purchase them.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shopping
http://www.instantshift.com/2010/03/26/the-history-of-online-shopping-in-nutshell/
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