Topic; A Key Concept in Information Systems; - Mobile and wireless networks / security
An overview of the origin and history of the e-Commerce / B2B e-Commerce / mobile and voice-based e-Commerce The history of ecommerce can be traced back to the invention of the very old notion of “sell and buy” computers, electricity, cables, modems as well as the internet. The first e-commerce transactions was started in March, 4, 1983 by Alex Randall, (YouTube, 2008) but people started using ecommerce in 1991, when the internet was opened for commercial use and since then, there have been thousands of businesses which put up their businesses at web sites. The term ecommerce was used before to refer to the process of executing commercial transactions electronically thus with the assistance of the leading technologies such as Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), through their help, they gave users opportunities to exchange business information as well as ability to do business transaction electronically. These technologies have been used even before, in the 1970s, these technologies’ ability was used by business companies as well as organizations to send electronically the commercial documentation. The use of internet become popular to the general public in 1994 but it took almost four years to develop the security protocols such as HTTP and DSL, these protocols allowed rapid access as well as a persistent connection to the internet hence by 2000, several business companies both in the United States and Western Europe were
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