According
to John Markoff in his 2005 book
What
the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal
Computer Industry
,
the first online eCommerce transaction was a drug deal:
In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford
University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory engaged in a commercial
transaction with their counterparts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Before Amazon, before eBay, the seminal act of e-commerce was a drug
deal. The students used the network to quietly arrange the sale of an
undetermined amount of marijuana.
Mike Power of The Guardian has more:
Here.
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