The logo of NCSA Mosaic.
The history of e-commerce is started from 1960s after the development of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). EDI provided a platform for the data transferring within company and make the data digitalized. However, the use of EDI required high cost in that time and in slow and complex development. In 1992, the appearance of Mosaic web browser moved the e-commerce to new era. This web browser was developed by National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). It is the first web browser can display the image and text in one window. This let the process of e-commerce become more easily. Afterwards, Netscape browser was developed and it is downloadable.
This is the Mosaic web browser 0.6 beta for Windows.
Another technology to boost the e-commerce was the development of DSL. DSL enable the connection to internet quicker so it can increase the speed of business transactions. The competition of Linux and Windows started after the development of Red Hat Linux. Users got more choices for platform other than Windows. In 2000, the merger of AOL and Time Warner provided a huge profit for the economic and this also one of the major steps of e-commerce. After the attack of hacker, the improvement of security becomes the biggest issue in e-commerce. On the other hand, the dot-com collapse attack the e-commerce market and made many online company disappear. Even though the issues of hacker and dot-com collapse, the improvement of e-commerce cannot be stopped.
The e-commerce normally was use for B2B (business-to-business) transactions in the beginning and it is also the largest profit maker in e-commerce market now. The C2C (consumer-to-consumer) becomes more and more popular in these few years. For example, the famous auction website such as eBay. P2P (peer-to-peer) is also one of the important model in e-commerce. It enables to share file and resource to each user. However, It is easy to offend the law of piracy.
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