E commerce A History
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EDI is a set of standards developed in the 1960's to exchange business information and do electronic transactions [3]. At first there was several different EDI formats that business could use, so companies still might not be able to interact with each other. However, in 1984 the ASC X12 standard became stable and reliable in transferring large amounts of transactions [1]. The next major step occurred in 1992 when the Mosaic web-browser was made available, it was the first 'point and click' browser. The Mosaic browser was quickly adapted into a downloadable browser, Netscape, which allowed easier access to electronic commerce [1]. The development of DSL was another key moment in the development to of e-commerce. DSL allowed quicker access and a persistent connection to the Internet [1]. Christmas of 1998 was another major step in the development of e-commerce. AOL had sales of 1.2 billion over the 10 week holiday season from online sales [1]...