14 Oct
2004
14 Oct
'04
2:22 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
I got contacted by an attorney looking for prior art
on ecommerce and
shopping carts, especially web-based stuff; a bunch of lawyers ended up
with the OpenMarket patents and is trying to shake everyone down, ala
SCO. Amazon, among others, are working on busting the patent.
I guess Amazon is trying to make up for it's stupid one-click patent? :)
June-July of '94 my company (Bibliobytes/HKS.net)
released
"OrderBook", which was basically a front end that would let you enter
some SKU's and credit card info and would email us an encrypted copy
of the order to be processed and fufilled. You got the SKUs from a
catalog downloaded seperately from a web page, by ftp, or whatever.
Around August 2004, NetMarket, a startup done by four guys from
Swarthmore, started selling CDs over the web.
Wow, I didn't realize e-commerce was being deployed even this early.
Anyone know of any other shopping-cart and/or
automatic payment
systems that were up and running or publically described
before October of '94?
I've got a few very early web directory books from this timeframe that
might shed some light.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]