history

You probably woke up today wondering what the first domain name was and how long ago was it registered? Because there are a few people who pay attention to historical stuff like that, and because I saw a random email today that attracted my attention – I can tell you that today (March 15th, 2013) [...]

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1971: Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sends the ???rst electronic mall message. Tomlinson has since forgotten what the message said. 1976: Queen Elizabeth II becomes first head of state to send an electronic mail message. 1978: The ???rst electronically- sent advertisement goes out, over a network of government and university computers. 1982: The word ???email??? is [...]

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Ecommerce

January 1, 2010

What do people think when they hear ecommerce? They think of doing business on the Internet. However, long before you could download electronic goods and buy products over the internet ecommerce already existed. Using technology for electronic funds transfer that made it possible to use credit cards, automated cash machines or telephone banking were the [...]

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