The Making of E-Commerce: 10 Key Moments [Archive.org URL]

The first great event in the history of e-commerce wasn’t the invention of Netscape or the first e-Christmas. According to an E-Commerce Times roundup of the top 10 e-commerce milestones,
it was the 1984 adoption of the ASC X12 standard for electronic data interchange. That much-overlooked event paved the way for better-known milestones — Netscape’s arrival is event No. 2,
and the 1998 holiday shopping season is fourth on the list. Other great moments include the advent of Napster (No. 6) and the denial-of-service attacks that rocked some of the Web’s
most popular sites in February (No. 8).

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