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- 1. SCAN COMMERCE June 26, 1974, the first item marked with Universal Product Code (UPC) scanned at the checkout of Troy’s Marsh Supermarket 1992 Sprint offers dial-up Internet access DigitalConvergence develops wireless key fob, pen and mouse/cat combo for coming wireless & camera phone age. Partners with Sumitomo Corporation in Japan to release CRQ & Q Codes 2001 DigitalConvergence shutters - Patents bought back by inventor 1998 1997 Pulitzer begins developing and filing Scan Commerce, Scan Connect eCommerce Commerce core patents. 1st standard bar code reader to route product codes to internet 1974 In Japan, Denso Wave creates unique 2-D bar-code to track vehicles during manufacturing. Amazon is started 1991 1996 1996 .096% of the World's population uses the internet, most consider the internet confusing to navigate Only 100,000 websites globally and Apple losing money hand over fist. Steve Jobs still had not rejoined the company Brief History of August 6,1991, the World Wide Web became publicly available Direct Marketer Jovan Hutton Pulitzer utilizes first URL in a national TV/Print advertising campaign in effort to learn how to get people to use the internet 19941994 1995 America Online reaches 3 million active users Pulitzer begins experimenting with making "machine readable codes" work with the internet. First "transfer DNS sever" mapped 1995Netscape goes public and achieves $5.4 billion market cap- Dot Com craze begins 2000March 11, 2000 Dot.Com Crash! 1999 DigitalConvergence one of the 1st Internet Age Unicorns worth $1B (private). 1st public scan-able Q Codes released with CRQ (See Our Cue) plugin 16.8 million product codes begin manually linked to web pages Inventor Jovan Hutton Pulitzer begins developing "Internet Short Cuts" to increase use of websites popping up on internet Coders Jeff Harris and Brandon Brown develop ARS servers to begin testing UPC and standard product codes as URL designate1997 1.7% of the world has internet and IEEE introduces 802.11 the wireless (Wi-Fi) network standard. PNG introduced and google.com domain name registered by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The domain facebook.com came online Windows 98 introduced. 3.6% of world now uses internet. DVD's first introduced. 42.1% of US households has computers First Wiki was introduced with WikiWikiWeb. Melissa virus released causes $80m in damages. First USB flash drives were developed "Keystroke Automation Technology" (CAT) released with 1,000,000+ registered device installs in 30 days. Becomes fastest adoption rate for a computer peripheral CREATION PHASE 1999 Steven Spielberg, Jeffery Katzenberg & David Geffen become first industry leaders to get business cards with scanable Q-codes read with CRQ 2000 2002First phones with built- in cameras become publicly available 2008 Scan Commerce, Scan Connect and eCommerce Commerce patent portfolios begin licensing enabling eCommerce, promotions, ticketing & financial transactions. 200918% of US has Smart Phones. Scan Commerce, Scan Connect and eCommerce Commerce patents begins licensing to over 100 major companies and manufacturers Sources: Wikipedia, Internet News Archive, Wayback Machine, CueCat Archives, USPTO, RPX Corp, Computer History Museum, Smithsonian Instution, Internet World Stats, PC Magazine, Ziff-Davis, Census.gov, Statista, InfoPlease, Science Direct, Pew Research, Internet Live Stats, Data WorldBank, Hosting Facts, Dactverse Harvard University, Big Commerce, NCES.gov