Research on the inventors of the WWW and E commerce

WWW (WORLD WIDE WEB)


World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist while he was working at CERN. The original aim of the web was to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990. Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, this was formalised as a management proposal in November 1990 which went live for the first time in December 1990. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined important terms behind the Web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "World Wide Web" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by "browsers". 

In August 1991 Tim Berners-Lee announced the WWW software on the internet and by the end of December 1994, more than 10,000 web servers were online around the world. 

Draft proposal for WWW.


Reference: (A short history of the Web, 2021)

E commerce 


Book Stacks Unlimited is widely recognised as one of the first e-commerce pioneers in the online world.  It was established in 1992 by a software developer called Charles Stack who initially ran an online bookstore that began life as a bulletin board service (BBS).The idea was to offer every book ever published in an easily accessible way to everyone who was interested. Although it never reached that target, it was still able to offer half a million titles and attracted the same number of visitors each month. As well as shopping, it featured a daily literary journal and news about new books as well as interviews with authors and online forums for discussion on new novels. 

The company was eventually outsmarted by Amazon who arrived a couple of years after Book Stacks Unlimited.  It was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos.  After reading a report about the future of the Internet, Bezos created a list of the most promising products which could be sold online; these included: CDs and video, computer equipment and books.

Bezos decided to sell books online and started Amazon from his garage in Seattle.  The unique thing about Amazon was, unlike the traditional mail-order catalogues, it never had to hold any stock.  It could vary its product selection daily, even hourly based on the availability from suppliers.  This way it was able to create a endless choice.

Reference: (The Birth of e-commerce: a Short History of Shopping Online, 2021)

The birth of the internet in the 90s has totally transformed the way we shop. It's gone from high effort to low effort in a relatively short time. We can now shop from the comfort of our homes and get things delivered on our door steps within days. 

Several businesses do not even have a physical store. The consumers get all the products directly form the warehouses when they buy online. Also, the easy accessibility of e commerce has made shopping much easier in a way that customers can buy the products from anywhere in the world at any time they like. 


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