Friday, June 20, 2008

History and Evoluation of E-commerce


The origin of commerce by exchanging goods, now commerce is a basic activity of goods trading and buying in everyday life. Entering into the electronic era, the way individuals and organizations do business and undertake commercial transactions have been changed.The emergence of electronic commerce started in the early 1970s with the earliest is technology electronic interchange (EDI) was introduced.
During the 1990s, the
Internet was opened for commercial use; it was also the period that users started to participate in World Wide Web (WWW), and the phenomenon of rapid personal computer (PCs) usage growth. Due to the rapid expansion of the WWW network; e-commerce software; and the peer business competitions, large number of dot-coms and Internet starts-ups appeared. Integrated with the commercialization of the Internet, Web invention, and PC networks these three important factors made electronic commerce possible and successful.
Today the largest electronic commerce is Business-to-Business (B2B). Businesses involved in B2B sell their goods to other businesses.Other varieties growing today include Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) where consumers sell to each other, for example through auction sites. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is another form of e-commerce that allows users to share resources and files directly.
History of ecommerce is a history of a new, virtual world which is evolving according to the customer advantage. All the tasks, letters, messages and data transferred within a flick of a second at any place no matter how far or how near. This all was impossible even for a thought or a dream, for things to be like that just a few years ago. It is a world which we are all building together brick by brick, laying a secure foundation for the future generations.

2 comments:

^JIN^ said...

Is there any more types of e-business other than P2P,C2C and B2B???

Lynn said...

I think got B2C, B2B2C, C2B, and so on. many types can appear in Internet.