From Selling Drugs to Delivering Panties by Drone: How to Hack E-Commerce in 2022

In his book ‘What the Dormouse Said’, John Markoff mentioned ARPANET as the seminal act of e-commerce. However, it’s undeniable that the platform to arrange cannabis between students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is still known as the first online selling platform. Yes, the e-commerce we see today started as a drug-dealing platform in 1971-72. Fast-forward to 1995, Amazon was launched, followed by eBay in the same year. This was the year that started a completely new journey in the e-commerce industry. In the coming years, numerous platforms like Alibaba, Flipkart, etc., came into existence. It was then that we started noticing the modern day of doing business.