From Singapore Hotels & Singapore Lifestyle
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- 1990: Tim Berners-Lee wrote "The WorldWideWeb browser" using a NeXT computer.
- 1994: Netscape released the Navigator browser in October under the code name Mozilla. Pizza Hut offered pizza ordering on its Web page. The first online bank opened. Attempts to offer flower delivery and magazine subscriptions online. "Adult" materials were also commercially available very soon. Netscape 1.0 in late 1994 introduced SSL encryption that made transactions secure.
- 1995: Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com and the first commercial 24 hr. internet only radio station "Radio HK" started broadcasting. Dell and Cisco began to aggressively use Internet for commercial transactions.
- 1996: eBay was founded.
- 1998: Electronic postal stamps can be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web.
- 1999: business.com was sold for US $7.5 million (purchased 1997 for US $150,000) The peer-to-peer filesharing software "Napster" was launched.
- 1999: The UK's first graphical Internet shopping mall (The Virtual Mall) was launched.
- 2000: The dot-com bust.
- 2001: Merger of AOL and Time Warner.
- 2003: Amazon.com: first-ever full-year profit.
- 2005: Creation of major online gift basket retailer [1]
