1.4 The Importance of The Internet in Ecomm

The importance of the Internet to eComm stems from two main features of the Internet itself:

The wide spread of the Internet utilization. That is because the internet is the modern way to establish communication and sharing between all the people in the world. That made the world in the age of the Internet looks as if it is one small electronic village.

The large number of diversified services offered by the Internet. From all internet services, one very specific service which is the World Wide Web (WWW), was the major contributor to the flourishing of the eComm.

From that sense, the Internet, by reaching to everybody everywhere, helped spreading the concept of eComm and made it available for almost everyone. Additionally, the Internet offered some invaluable services to its users that made them capable of utilizatingeComm.