E-Commerce Week

Hello Once again!

Thanks to the wonders of the Internet and its profitability, this blog, and many many others like it, are able to survive on little else than effort and patience.

So this week, we are going to pay homage to E-Commerce and talk about how it works...

First of ALLLLL... We have to DEFINE E-Commerce:
E-commerce (electronic commerce or EC) is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. In practice, this term and a newer term, e-business, are often used interchangably. For online retail selling, the term e-tailing is sometimes used.

Here's a Little History....



It seemed far flung at that time, didn't it? The whole idea of using computers to buy and sell things and using credit cards to pay someone digitally did not seem even remotely possible at that time. Yet... as the days went by, it grew by leaps and bounds.

E-Commerce, in the end, is a classic "Child" of the Internet. It is a child borne out of curiosity, enterprise and daring- Hallmarks of the Internet Generation. It's success is only matched by it ingenious abilit to proliferate almost any demographic, as long as it had a credit card or bank account.

I guess that is the true power of the Internet, to be able to do the impossible, and make it happen so many times over with the same great results.

Until next week... Toodlepips!