span ability to do billing and
class="cap">S ometim invoicing through electronic
es it seems like e-commerce methods. The technology allowing
as always been a part of our this kind of commerce took hold
lives. Most of us make business in the late 1970’s and grew
transactions online on such a steadily throughout the 1980’s.
regular basis that it is It was during this time that
difficult to imagine a time when people started to use credit
you were not able to do so. cards on a regular basis and that
Despite this, the history of set the foundation for electronic
e-commerce is actually a commerce to get a toehold in
relatively short history. It society.
began less than fifty years ago
However, it wasn’t until the
and its humble beginnings look development of the Internet that
nothing like the kind of e-commerce started looking like
electronic business transactions the type of business that we know
that we see today. Even up until today. For most people talking
the 1990’s, online business about it now, the term refers to
wasn’t a reality for the average transactions, which take place
person. So how did we get to the completely through the web. When
point where e-commerce has become you search for an item on sites
practically a way of life? such as eBay or Amazon and then
The development of e-commerce was pay with a credit card or online
one of those things that happened checking account, you’re
slowly and then suddenly. At its conducting the kind of e-commerce
very basic level, the term refers that most people think of when
simply to any commerce that takes the term comes up. That wasn’t
place electronically. This made possible until the average
includes ATM and credit card person began to use the Internet
transactions as well as the in the 1990’s.
Two things happened in the could be done in the workplace.
mid-1990’s to make this kind of Additionally, many small
e-commerce a possibility. First, businesses invested too much
computer security was money in creating a web presence
strengthened enough to make and they weren’t able to sustain
consumers and businesses feel that development due to lack of
comfortable with conducting these funds. At the turn of the twenty
types of transactions online. first century, the dot-com bust
Second, the average person began happened and many of these
to gain familiarity with the web businesses went broke.
and started using it for every
Of course, we survived the
day activities such as online dot-com bust and the Internet
shopping. Combined with the fact came back in a bigger and better
that web design was improving and way. Today, the average person
the speed of the Internet was not only has a home computer but
increasing, e-commerce had a also has the high speed Internet
platform for development. In connection that lets him or her
1995, Amazon.com was launched and move easily between web pages.
we really started seeing the type This makes it easy to do
of e-commerce that we’re used to comparison-shopping online. More
today.
importantly, the availability of
Despite the fact that the web high speed Internet has increased
looked a lot then like it does the ability of people to work
now, there were several factors from home. These people often set
that inhibited the growth of the up e-commerce sites, which allow
online business at this time. For them to sell products without
one thing, many people still needing a whole business behind
didn’t have high speed Internet them. These two factors combined
in their homes so online shopping have made it so that e-commerce
tended to be limited to what has become a part of our daily
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