Invention of WWW and E-commerce

 Invention of WWW and E-commerce 

The world wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 – originally he was trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share the data from their experiments. Hypertext (text displayed on a computer display that links to other text the reader can immediately access) and the internet already existed, but no one had thought of a way to use the internet to link one document directly to another.

That same year, Berners-Lee created the first web server and wrote the first web browser. Shortly thereafter, he went on to debut the web on August 6, 1991 as a publicly-available service on the Internet. When Berners-Lee decided he would take on the task of marrying hypertext to the Internet, the process led him to develop URL, HTML and HTTP.

E-commerce Evolution 

1969: CompuServe – first online service provider – is launched.

1979: Michael Aldrich invents electronic shopping and makes the first electronic transaction.

1982: World’s first eCommerce company, Boston Computer Exchange, is started.

1991: The world wide web is invented.

1992: First eCommerce website – an online bookstore – Book Stacks Unlimited is launched.

1994: Netscape Navigator – an online web browser – is launched.

1995: eBay and Amazon are launched.

1998: Paypal is launched, and it revolutionises online payment processes.

1999: Alibaba – a frontier in eCommerce brands – is launched.

2000: Google AdWords – the first online search advertising tool – helps retailers advertise their products/services.

Reference: 

- A short history of the web (no date) CERN. Available at: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web (Accessed: January 23, 2023). 

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