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what is electronic commerce (4)
includes activities such as buying and selling goods via the internet, on-line delivery of digital products (downloading music/software), electronic funds transfers (EFT), electronic data interchange (EDI)
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all electronic commerce activities involve the
electronic processing and transmission of data
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what is the internet?
huge network of over 100,000 smaller networks from all over the wolrd
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computer was originally developed
in the 1960's for the US military and in the 1970's grew to include university and government research institutions
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today the internet is also used
by companies and individuals to communicate via a protocol (set of standards)
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the set of standards are called
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol
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what's the difference between the internet and WWW?
WWW is part of the internet
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the world wide web (www) consists of the
the electronic documents, or web pages, that you access using a web browser such as Internet Explorers or Netscape
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the web uses a protocol called
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to transfer electronic documents and images to your computer, called HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
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Usenet
worldwide bulletin board system consisting of over 14,000 forums or "newsgroups" dealing with just about every topic imaginable
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3 internet business level
information, transaction, distribution levels
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information level
use the internet to display info about the company and its products on the company's website
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transaction level
use the internet not only to display info but also to receive orders from customers and to place orders with the company's suppliers
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Distribution Level
use the internet to actually delivers products to customers (ebooks, software videos, songs)
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