Commerce history

Most notably, the Harmony Grove Female Academy was the first school for girls in the state and was established in 1824.

Early on, the city flourished as a cotton market and eventually became synonymous with textiles when local businessmen launched Harmony Grove Mills in 1893.

The Department of Commerce was originally created as the US Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903.

It was subsequently renamed the Department of Commerce on March 4, 1913, as the bureaus and agencies specializing in labor were transferred to the new Department of Labor.

In 1969, CompuServe was the first major e-commerce company to be formed in the United States.

Various industries elaborated upon that system in the ensuing decades before the first general standard was published in 1975.

All happened when Michael Aldrich, an english investor, innovator and entrepreneur invented online shopping in 1979.

For many years, e-commerce existed quietly, but in 1990, the first web browser, aptly named “WorldWideWeb,” was launched.

Amazon.com, Inc. is one of the most famous ecommerce companies, was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and considered to be the first american ecommerce business to sell products on the Internet.

The website was launched in 2011 and even if at first there were a limited number of sellers the platform developed quickly.

In 2012, a former Amazon employee launched Instacart in San Francisco.

By 2014, Apple capitalized on the amount of time that we’re spending on our portable devices, and developed Apple Pay as a digital wallet and mobile payment tool.

As e-commerce rapidly develops, we’ve seen social sites become shoppable, with a notable milestone in 2015 when Pinterest added buyable Pins to their boards.