History of eCommerce

Commerce Before Technology
There was a time, before electricity that all commerce was carried out face-to-face or via the mails. Now running at the speed of light, using electronic commerce, oh how the times have changed for business.

Phone Commerce
Phones are still a way of life for business, and at one point most business to business transactions were made over the phone. Now e-mail and other electronic methods are coming of age.

Fax Commerce
The facsimile device is now indispensable, but there was a time, not so long ago, that it was at the heart of many business transactions.

Internet commerce
With some sites, The Internet had its roots during the 1960's as a project of the United States government's Department of Defense, to create a non-centralized network designed to survive partial outages (ie. nuclear war) and still function when parts of the network were down or destroyed. Summary 1992 "The WWW world consists of documents, and links. Indexes are special documents which, rather than being read, may be searched. The result of such a search is another ("virtual") document containing links to the documents found. A simple protocol (" HTTP ") is used to allow a browser program to request a keyword search by a remote information server."

During the dotcom era, people talked about how the net would empower shoppers. People who struggled with badly designed sites probably found this idea hard to swallow. But this is one dotcom idea that still holds good. Consumers are now more in control. The entrepreneurs have blown up and gone away. As for the mainstream players, this market has fallen at their feet but they're still just dabbling with it. It really now seems to be driven by consumers.

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