The first thing bought on the internet wasn't actually a legal substance...
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
March 1, 2020 8:44am CST
And it still isn't for the most part.
In 1971 or '72 two groups of students, one at Stanford, and the other at MIT engaged in a deal done on the ARPANET which wasn't actually a transaction of money. They merely agreed to the deal and a meeting place, money was exchanged in hand.
In the 80's, a woman in Britain bought groceries from a local grocer online...
There's more examples at this link :
Did secure online transactions begin with weed? Groceries? Pizza? Nope.
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@snowy22315 (209118)
• United States
1 Mar 20
I am pretty sure the first thing I bought online was a book from Amazon. I am still buying books from Amazon..at least on occasion..
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
I can't really remember the very first thing I bought, it's been years.
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@snowy22315 (209118)
• United States
1 Mar 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I bet it was a book!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
@snowy22315 It could have been, but I really started getting into books in my thirties. I read from the library in my early 20's. I know I used to go to the salvation army with my ex husband to find books, that was in my early 20's.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
Yes, I am not sure if I recall correctly either. It was a long time ago.
@jobelbojel (36796)
• Philippines
2 Mar 20
Not familiar with arpanet but this is a good to know tidbit.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
2 Mar 20
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet
That's from wikipedia, I didn't know what it was either.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
2 Mar 20
@LadyDuck Oh wow. So one must really know how to trade before justifying the use of the system.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
The only thing you could do was trade on the stock exchange at that time? Was it like a closed exchange system?
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@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
2 Mar 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes, with that system it was only possible to trade on the stock exchange and it was not even free, it was pretty expensive.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
2 Mar 20
The last time I bought shoes off of amazon they were crap.
I can't even rightly remember what mine was, but I think it was either a CD or a book.
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@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
1 Mar 20
I can't remember the first thing I bought online. But it was probably music.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
I'm pretty sure mine was from one of those CD subscription clubs. Though it technically wasn't my first purchase.
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
1 Mar 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum either music or books. It's been a long time
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
@thislittlepennyearns Yeah, same here. I can remember those music subscription service being bought for me.. I think my very first purchase was probably on amazon.
@shaggin (74987)
• United States
1 Mar 20
Oh I see I thought by your title you were telling us the first thing you bought on the internet this month.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
Haha, ah well it is the first day of the month, isn't it? That would be quite a catchy title for a new purchase. I do plan to order something soon, but it won't be for a few days yet.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Mar 20
I thought so. No one thinks about these little nuances.
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