You know what was the first sale online? – Daily News – Lisbon

The first steps to an online sales are given in the ’70s, but it was not until after 90 to verify a transaction with payment made over the internet

After Black Friday, Cyber ​​Monday comes. The logic is the same, but the discounts are exclusively online. This initiative is proof that online sales are becoming more expression. And with the stores to strengthen this sector and the consumer to surrender the ease of purchase through a click is a question: what and when was the first sale made via the internet

A video of Shopify – site that lets you create an online store – back in time in search of the answer. And he retreated until 1971, still in the ARPANET time. According to the website, a student at Stanford University bought marijuana to an MIT student. However, this turns out not to count as first sale, since it was not made a payment via internet. Basically combined where to meet and finalize the transaction.

The video “traveling” then until 1984. In that year Jane Snowball, a British grandmother (as is said in the video), uses a system called videotex to order their purchases for the home. The Videotex was basically a TV connected to phone lines. But once again, this transaction does not count as eggs, margarine and Corn Flakes were delivered at home and paid at the time.

Only ten years later came the first purchase online. It is noted that although the Pizza Hut receive often claims, the truth is that it was a young man of 21 years, Dan Kohn, to create a website called NetMarket and gives the system that allowed the sale online.

So, what it is that was first sold on the Internet? A CD Sting ( Ten Summoner’s Tales ). The transaction took place August 11, 1994 and was done by a technology that allowed encrypt credit card data. The CD cost $ 12.48, plus shipping costs.

“Even if NASA were to hear, they could not get the credit card,” said Kohn damage to The New York Times , in an interview the day after the transaction, quoted by fastcompany site.

This site writes that some people claim to have been the first, namely the Internet Shopping Network, which claims to have made a sale a month before the NetMarket.

It is also noted that in the 80s there was already a form of online shopping in Europe but unsafe. Some operators offered the possibility of buying plane or train tickets, as well as access to services such as stock prices or weather data.