The first ecommerce transaction wasn’t a Pizza Hut pizza or weed, it was a Sting CD

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by Sindy Cator on November 26, 2015 at 2:00 pm

There are a lot of theories online as to what exactly constitutes the Web’s first ecommerce transaction. Was it the purchase of weed by students at Stanford from students at MIT between 1971 and 1974? Nope. This was more of an instant message transaction and no money exchanged hands. It could have been Jane Snowball, a 72-year-old British woman. In 1984 she used the Video Tex to buy margarine, eggs and Corn Flakes from her local grocer. Nope. The transaction didn’t use mainstream technology and Snowball paid for her goods in cash. It seems the first ecommerce transaction actually took place at…