The History of Ecommerce Part II
July 17, 2025
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today.
Source: The History of Ecommerce Part II – The History of the Web
Financial transactions on the Web have always been a challenge. Even today the fixed cost part of any transaction (typically in the order of 30c) constrains exploring business models.
Here the excellent History of the Web looks at 3 early attempts to add transactions to the Web.
