E-commerce opportunities for businesses

many business need e-commerce software services to help take advantage of e-commerce areas.

1. Tourism and travel sector : this sector has updated its system with e-commerce services. consumers can make online reservations of hotels,motels,air tickets, railway tickets, etc.

2. Banking sector : most banks have changed their working style by making their services available online through their respective websites.

3. Health care sector :  this sector is large and uses a major part of government expenses . so, most health care companies communicate or exchange their services with each other.

4. Stock sector : in the stock exchange sector , e-commerce services provide demat account facilities  for customers who can do an overall analysis of the status of  the stock areas and do their respective transactions.

5. Financial sector : in india , the financial sector has adopted e-commerce services and the users make maximum use of the same.

History of Internet

History of the Internet

1969 :          The US Department of Defense started the first network amongmajor research centres in the                         US.

1971 :          Major connections or nodes were established. E-mail was introduced.

1973 :          Defense Department started developing various forms of file transfer.

1984 :          Domain Name Service (DNS) was introduced.

1986 :         The US National Service Foundation created Internet-based telephone lines.

1987 :         The number of hosts (computers on the Internet) reached 10,000.

1988 :         The number of hosts on the Internet crossed over 60,000.

1989 :         Over 100,000 hosts on the Internet were registered.

1991 :          The World Wide Web (WWW) was created by CERN inSwitzerland.
                   (Conseil European pour la Recherché Nuclearire)

1992 :          One million hosts were found on the Internet.

1995 :          There were a total of 6.6 million hosts or computers on the Internet.

July 1997 :   1.3 million domain names were registered.

Dec. 1997 :  22 million servers, 40 million users on the WWW.

2000 :          110 million users and 72 million domain names.

2003 :          802.2 million users and 233 hosts.