20 Facts That Sound Like Bullsh*t But Are Totally True

9. The First Thing To Be Sold On The Internet Was A Bag Of Weed

Ah, the birth of e-commerce: sparked by humankind's shared compulsion to get high. That's correct, the very first online transaction; the historical moment sparking off the world of Amazon and eBay we know today, was a sack of bud. In 1971, students in Standford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory quietly arranged the business deal with students at Massachussetts Institute of Technology. The commercial transaction was done using Arpanet accounts, successfully selling and buying a neat little load of marijuana over the World Wide Weed. I mean, Web. It all started with drugs, and, for all we know, it could all end with drugs, too.