6.3 From SSL to TLS
One of the first e-commerce applications was Book Stacks Unlimited, an online bookstore created by Charles M. Stack in 1992. The store began as a dial-up bulletin board, moved to the internet in 1994 in the books.com
domain, and was eventually bought by Barnes & Noble [121].
In April 1995, John Wainwright, a computer scientist known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming languages, ordered the first book ever sold by an online bookstore named after the South American river Amazon. It was Douglas Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought [70].
More e-commerce sites and services quickly followed. The prominent eBay marketplace opened its doors in 1995. In 1996, IndiaMART started offering its services over the web. Netflix launched its subscription video-on-demand service in 1997. The PayPal online payment system went online in 1998 [196]. With the growing number...