Difference between revisions of "Online shopping"
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the world-wide-web in 1990. This provided the avenue for business-to-consumer transactions, allowing the average consumer to browse content posted on the world wide web in their own homes. In 1994 the internet browser Netscape introduced Secure Socket Layer encryptions, which allowed for the secure transmission of messages over the internet. This meant transactions were able to take place through the world-wide-web without risk of stolen information.<ref>http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/Secure-Sockets-Layer-SSL</ref> The same year Pizza Hut began to offer the online ordering services, with many companies after following suit.<ref>http://www.instantshift.com/2010/03/26/the-history-of-online-shopping-in-nutshell/</ref> | Tim Berners-Lee invented the world-wide-web in 1990. This provided the avenue for business-to-consumer transactions, allowing the average consumer to browse content posted on the world wide web in their own homes. In 1994 the internet browser Netscape introduced Secure Socket Layer encryptions, which allowed for the secure transmission of messages over the internet. This meant transactions were able to take place through the world-wide-web without risk of stolen information.<ref>http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/Secure-Sockets-Layer-SSL</ref> The same year Pizza Hut began to offer the online ordering services, with many companies after following suit.<ref>http://www.instantshift.com/2010/03/26/the-history-of-online-shopping-in-nutshell/</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 21:16, 9 October 2012
Online shopping is the buying of goods or services through sellers over the internet. There are various types of online shops that simulate "real life" shopping experiences including online auctioning (Ebay), site-hosted personal storefronts (Etsy), and physical stores that host their own online storefront.
History
Online shopping has been a implementable and bankable idea since the inception of end-user information systems. Videotex, a two-way messaging service displayed through television monitors, was the first medium for the idea of implementing "teleshopping". Companies in the UK (Prestel, Oracle, Viewdata) and companies in the USA (The Source and Compuserve) did much research in the field of videotex. The concept of "teleshopping" (shopping at a distance, not to be confused with infomercials, a form of television shopping) was introduced by Michael Aldrich in 1979. It was not referred to as "on-line shopping" because there was no Internet at the time. The original system developed by Aldrich's team was not based in computers but in telecoms and consumer electronics industries, and was initially only used for business-to-business transactions (B2B). In 1990s with the mass installation of home computers, business-to-consumer (B2C) commerce began.[1]
Tim Berners-Lee invented the world-wide-web in 1990. This provided the avenue for business-to-consumer transactions, allowing the average consumer to browse content posted on the world wide web in their own homes. In 1994 the internet browser Netscape introduced Secure Socket Layer encryptions, which allowed for the secure transmission of messages over the internet. This meant transactions were able to take place through the world-wide-web without risk of stolen information.[2] The same year Pizza Hut began to offer the online ordering services, with many companies after following suit.[3]
