Let's read the story of the invention of eCommerce and Michael Aldrich, the godfather of online shopping| SmartOSC
This is about one of those ideas so great, you wonder why it took as long as it did to come about. ``Book Stacks Unlimited'' is a 3-year-old electronic bookstore with about 250,000 available titles on file. It's accessible to anyone with a computer and a modem. Perhaps the easiest way to explain how it works is to give a couple of examples:| Deseret News
Signaling fierce competition among online booksellers, Book Stacks Unlimited is further slashing the prices it charges for books it sells on the Net.| CNET
France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s.| BBC News
If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your […]| The History of the Web
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