Oldest Ecomm site that still alive

[Acternaweb]

Where can I find a list of the oldest and still alive ecommerece web sites? Looking for an early leader of ecommerce rather then a specific industry.

Thanks

[vBMechanic]

Use the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody.

(archive.org)

[moltar]

What exactly do you consider to be "ecommerce"? Any kind of paid for service/product over the web? Or only tangible stuff?

If services are ok, then it'd be some adult site most likely :)

[Acternaweb]

Tangible goods, was looking for something with a strong brand, but not like ebay, amazon.

[lgn1]

Internet Ecommerce was first legalize in March 1991.
Browsers did not exist until 1993. It wasn't until 1994 that technology was invented to take credit cards over the internet. I belive the first Internet business that still exists started taking credit cards in the fall of 2004. However I belive they were an ISP, not selling tangible goods.

Update. August 11, 1994. The company was called Netmarket.

[news.com.com ]

[ecommerceprofit]

I worked for a California ISP in 1994 - 95 and we were putting stores on the net back then. Even before I worked for them I was researching the audiobook business in 1993 and there was a company who set up gopher/lynx pages for something like $400/mo. Credit cards were taken and ran through traditional terminals but it worked fine - Teleflora was one of the big credit card providers then for net merchants from what I remember.

A good way to see histoy is through this link:

[archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu...]

Back in the day this was the best place to find new web sites :-)

[moltar]

eToys is pretty old. They are not the oldest, but they existed for quite a while.

[moltar]

Just checked walmart through wayback - looks pretty funny, check it out!

Welcome to World At Large Online Shopping Center

This site has had [counter image here] visits since Sunday, March 3rd, 1996

[BananaFish]

Probably Amazon, they were around way before target and outlasted etoys.