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The company was sold to in 1999 for $780 million. That same year a paper greeting card company called Blue Mountain began creating virtual cards. By late spring of 1997, a total of 1.7 million were electronically distributed. And the 1995/1996 Christmas season saw days where up to 19,000 cards were sent. The first summer resulted in up to 2,000 cards per day. Over the first few weeks, dozens of cards were sent out each week. Virtual cards were first started by Judith Donath at MIT Media Lab in 1994 and were created by the website called The Electronic Postcard. This term is also known as ecard, icard, i-card, digital postcard, cyber greeting card or digital greeting card.

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