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Paving the way for e commerce
replaced traditional mailing and faxing of documents with a digital transfer of data from one computer to another.
The idea came about during a stroll with his wife and Labrador when Aldrich lamented about their weekly supermarket shopping expedition. This conversation sparked an idea to hook a television to their supermarket to deliver the groceries. -
When E-commerce started
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The start of professional ecommerce
from the beginning that B2B online shopping would be commercially lucrative but B2C would not be successful until the later widespread use of PC’s and the World Wide Web, also known as, the Internet.The online service used a Videotex terminal machine that was accessed through telephone lines. The Minitel was free to telephone subscribers and connected millions of users to a computing network. -
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The proposal
In 1990 Tim Berners Lee, along with his friend Robert Cailliau, published a proposal to build a “Hypertext project” called, “WorldWideWeb.” That same year, Lee, using a NeXTcomputer created the first web server and wrote the first web browser. Shortly thereafter, he went on to debut the web on Aug. 6, 1991 as a publicly available service on the Internet. -
The ecommerce Behemoths
With mobile commerce gaining speed, more users are purchasing from the palm of their hand. The market for mobile payments is expected to quadruple by 2014, reaching $630 billion in value. Total sales in ecommerce have grown from $27.6 billion in 2000 to $143.4 billion in 2009 and are expected to continue its growth for the foreseeable future.