Cyber Monday turns 20 today. Though you may have memories of it from the late 90s, around the time Nelson Mandela didn't die and Berenstain Bears books were not published, the term was actually promoted by a hardworking marketing executive for a retail trade organization in 2005. On that first Cyber Monday, people were not doing Excite and Lycos searches; they were listening to Madonna's “Hung Up” on the first iPod Nanos and then sending their first hesitant, wobbly text messages on their Motorola Razrs.
That makes today the 20th anniversary of the holiest day in e-commerce, a day to celebrate buying things on the internet by buying things on the internet. Please join us in celebrating by … buying things on the internet. We've done a lot of the heavy lifting here by making an exhaustiv

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