Two years before the iPhone and five years before any of us had a tablet, Shop.org coined the term Cyber Monday to describe the Monday after Thanksgiving as the online side of the Black Friday retail shopping surge. A 2005 press release explained that consumers were expected to head online in droves on Cyber Monday during work hours (where many had stable Internet connections) to take advantage of sales and holiday specials. That year, consumers spent north of $484 million in e-commerce on Cyber Monday.