Sunday, June 28, 2009

History and the evolutionary of E-Commerce




Evolution of humans
PrimeApes ---------------------> Humans
???? ---------------------> Ecommerce


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What is the ancestor for Ecommerce ??

It was the year 1960 , the first ever step in making the history of Ecommerce

--The developmnet of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).



EDI is a set of standards developed to exchange business information and to to electronic transactions.


In the early stage, there were several EDI formats that business could use, so many companies might not be able to interact with each other.







However in 1982, ASC X12 standard became stable and reliable in transfering large amounts of transctions.


The next major step occurred in 1992 when the Mosaic web-browser was made available, it was the first ‘point and click’ browser.


The Mosaic browser was quickly adapted into a downloadable browser, Netscape, which allowed easier access to electronic commerce.


The development of DSL was another key moment in the development to of e-commerce. DSL allowed quicker access and a persistent connection to the Internet.

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Until today, ecommerce has been a media for world wide business transaction play a major role in the world of business of now a days.

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