From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media eCommerce Outline

The First Commercial Online Service
(1969)

The First Operational Online Antiquarian Bookselling Site
(1988)

"Clearing the Way for Electronic Commerce"
(1991)

The First Successful Online Bookseller Service
(1993)

Development of Neural Networks
(1993)

The First Commercial Website with the First Online Advertising
(May 1993)

Match.com
(1994)

The First Marketing on the Internet Seminar Series
(1994)

Yahoo! Founded
(April 1994)

Commercial Spaming Starts with the "Green Card Spam"
(April 12, 1994)

HTTP Cookies
(June 1994)

The First Web Analytics Vendor
(June 1994)

The First Web Page Tagging System
(1995)

Free Online Classified Advertisements
(March 1995)

Amazon.com is Founded
(July 1995)

The Beginning of the "Dot-Com Bubble"
(August 9, 1995)

eBay
(September 1995)

Abebooks.com
(1996)

A Search Engine Initially Called "BackRub"
(January 1996)

The First Web Analyzer with Drill-Down and Ad-Hoc Analysis
(1997)

The Cluetrain Manifesto
(1998)

Using Neural Networks for Word Sense Disambiguation
(1998)

The Growing Spam Problem
(April 1998)

Google is Founded
(September 7, 1998)

MyFamily.com
(December 1998)

Domain Names are Property
(1999)

comScore Founded
(August 1999)

The Journal of Interactive Advertising
(2000)

Climax of the Dot-Com Bubble
(March 10, 2000)

Google Launches AdWords
(October 23, 2000)

iPod Launched
(October 23, 2001)

Online Marketing Optimization
(2002)

Apple Opens the iTunes Store
(April 28, 2003)

MySpace
(August 2003)

The First U.S. Standards for Sending Commercial E-Mail
(December 16, 2003)

"The Long Tail"
(October 2004)

The Amazon Mechanical Turk
(November 2, 2005)

The Growing Field of Internet Marketing
(2006)

The Google Video Store Opens
(January 6, 2006)

The Highest Price Paid for a Domain Name
(January 16, 2006)

File-Sharing Exceeds Sales of Digital Music Downloads
(January 22, 2006)

College-Level Lectures Via Podcasts
(January 28, 2006)

Zillow.com
(February 8, 2006)

Over One Billion Downloads
(February 22, 2006)

The Biggest Music Retailer in the World: Apple's iTune Store
(April 23, 2006)

100,000,000 Users Within Three Years
(August 9, 2006)

Will it Blend?
(October 2006)

Google's AdWords to Place Ads in Print Newspapers
(November 6, 2006)

Google Buys YouTube
(November 6, 2006)

Newspaper Advertising in Partnership with Yahoo
(November 20, 2006)

Gaining 100,000,000 New Accounts in One Year
(September 7, 2007)

21 Billion in Revenue from Google AdWords
(2008)

About 200 Million People in the U.S. Have Broadband Connections
(May 2008)

Five Billion Songs
(June 2008)

The iTunes App Store Opens
(July 10, 2008)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

More than 200,000,000 Apps Downloaded
(October 21, 2008)

Downloads Trump CDs
(November 25, 2008)

Apple Eliminates Anticopying Restrictions from iTunes
(January 6, 2009)

Larger Version of the Amazon Kindle Introduced
(May 6, 2009)

Changing the Advertising Model for General News Reporting
(May 21, 2009)

Size of the Online Book Market in the U.S.
(June 1, 2009)

"Revenue at Craigslist is Said to Top $100,000,000" (N.Y. Times)
(June 9, 2009)

Bing Will Power Yahoo! Search
(July 29, 2009)

MySpace Acquires iLike
(August 19, 2009)

The Largest Study of Global Internet Traffic Since the Beginning of the Commercial Internet
(October 19, 2009)

Google Represents 6% of All Internet Traffic
(October 19, 2009)

3 Billion iPhone and iPod Apps Have Been Downloaded
(January 5, 2010)

The First Superman Comic Book sells for $1,000,000.
(February 22, 2010)

For the First Time E-books Outsell Digital Books on Amazon.com
(July 19, 2010)