History of Online Shopping

History of Online Shopping starts not so long ago. Tim Berners-Lee created "The World Wide Web Browser" in 1990. In1994 few other developments took place. Online bank , the first of its kind opened this year. Another development was opening of online pizza shop by pizza hut.

In the same year Netscape introduced SSL encryption to enable encryption over the data transferred online. This later became the necessity of online shopping. In 1995, Amazon started operation, one of the largest online shopping mall now. Then in 1996 ebay started its online shopping portal.

1998 witnessed use of electronic postage stamps, where people can download and print postal stamps after paying nominal fee. In 1999 the first online shop in UK launched.