College kids and the first online transaction.
And not a legal one either.
While e-commerce is huge business these days, the very first online transaction was done in the early seventies on the precursor to the internet, Arpanet.
Students between Stanford and MIT quietly arranged a deal for marijuana.
Who would have known they would become a part of history by sneakily exchanging for some pot.
And now 71% of shoppers make purchases online and it all started with a drug deal.