HISTORY
E-commerce, or electronic commerce, refers to the buying and selling of goods and services over the internet. The history of e-commerce can be traced back to the early days of the internet in the 1960s, when electronic data interchange (EDI) and electronic funds transfer (EFT) systems were first developed (Turban, King, Lee, Liang, & Turban, 2018). In the 1990s, the World Wide Web and the development of secure online payment systems paved the way for the first e-commerce websites, such as Amazon and eBay, to launch (Turban et al., 2018).
The early 2000s saw the rise of mobile e-commerce, as smartphones and other mobile devices became increasingly popular (Turban et al., 2018). This allowed consumers to shop online from anywhere, at any time, and opened up new opportunities for businesses to reach customers through mobile-optimized websites and apps (Turban et al., 2018).
In recent years, the growth of social media and the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain have further transformed the e-commerce landscape (Turban et al., 2018). Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram now allow businesses to sell products directly to consumers through their platforms, and new technologies like AI and blockchain are being used to improve the security and efficiency of online transactions (Turban et al., 2018).
WWW(WORLD WIDE WEB)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who is widely known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born in London, where his parents were early computer scientists working on some of the first computers. From a young age, Sir Tim was interested in trains and electronics, and in his bedroom, he had a model railway and built electronic gadgets to control the trains. As he grew older, he became more interested in electronics than trains, and in college, he even built a computer using an old television set.
After graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee became a software engineer at CERN, a large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists from around the world came to use its accelerators, but Sir Tim noticed that they were having difficulty sharing information. Each computer had different information, and users had to log on to different computers to access it, and often had to learn different programs to do so. He recognized that the problem could have much broader applications and proposed a solution, using an emerging technology called hypertext, which would eventually become the World Wide Web. In March 1989, Tim laid out his vision for what would become the web in a document called “Information Management: A Proposal”, however, his initial proposal was not immediately accepted. His boss at the time, Mike Sendall, noted the words “Vague but exciting” on the cover. The web was never an official CERN project, but Mike managed to give Tim time to work on it in September 1990. Tim began work on it using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products. (anonymous, 2022)
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