🌐 Shopping on the Information Superhighway
On March 13, 1996, Europe's largest Internet provider EUnet integrates ECash. Europeans could now make cash purchases "right on the information superhighway."
https://bitcoin-calendar.org/en/events/1996-03-13/shopping-on-the-information-superhighway
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