Monday is the 20th anniversary of the secure online transaction.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/11024908/20th-anniversary-of-first-online-sale-how-we-shop-on-the-web.html?fb
Looking at archive.org I did my first secure checkout in 1998, which I reckon is pretty good. It would have been earlier if I didn't spend a year exposing what the internet was to the bank.