Sales Archive · Cyber Monday · 2002–2016
Every Cyber Monday from 2002 to 2016 — the archive index
Between 2002 and 2016 Apparel Search built its Cyber Monday coverage year by year — this page is the index to that archive, from the day's unnamed beginnings to the mature online sale.
Thank you for using the Apparel Search website. Between the years 2002 and 2016 this section was created with a Google API code — a data service that fed news and sale information into the yearly pages. Google eventually ended that service, and with it the live feeds behind the early coverage were lost.
What survives is the archive itself: a yearly page for nearly every Cyber Monday of the period, kept for historical reference. The links below lead to each year's record, and to the guide that explains the day.
The yearly pages run from 2002 — when the Monday after Thanksgiving had no famous name, three years before the term Cyber Monday was popularized in 2005 — through the full, retailer-built event the day became by the mid-2010s.
Read in sequence, the pages show online fashion shopping growing up: dial-up-era catalog pages giving way to free-shipping offers, mobile checkout, and week-long sale arcs.
The early coverage drew its sale listings from a Google API service that Google later discontinued. When the service closed, the information it had supplied to these pages could no longer be retrieved — the explanation the yearly pages of this era carry for why their listings are thinner than they once were.
The rebuild keeps the surviving record intact: each yearly page stands as the archive's account of its season, with its routes to the clothes guides, stores and directories preserved.
Start with the Cyber Monday sales guide for the day's shape, then walk the years: the yearly pages are linked below and in the archive block at the foot of this page, in order.
Offers named in these pages belonged to their seasons and are not current deals. For this season's clothing sales, the shopping guides linked below are the living counterpart.
The Cyber Monday sales guide explains the day — its name, its timing after Thanksgiving, and how its online fashion offers are organized.
The yearly pages from 2002 onward show the day changing: unnamed pattern, named event, then a planned fixture of the fashion calendar.
The archive is history; today's clothing sales live in the shopping directory and the Amazon clothing guide linked on this page.
Shop the SeasonShopping the current season instead? The Apparel Search Amazon clothing guide gathers today's clothing searches in one place — the modern counterpart to this archive.
Between 2002 and 2016 this section was built with a Google API data service. When Google ended the service, the feeds behind the early pages were lost; the surviving yearly pages are kept as the historical record.
The archive holds yearly pages from 2002 through 2015, the 2017 page, the sales guide and the best-deals page — all linked from this page and the archive block below.
The term was popularized in 2005 by the Shop.org trade group, for the Monday after Thanksgiving — the archive's 2002 to 2004 pages cover the day before it had the name.
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