The Development and future perspectives of E-Commerce. Electronic Commerce involves online purchasing and selling of goods and services via the internet. It was started in the 1970’s and it has really grown through its new innovations and technologies. Before e commerce was started, Electronic Data Interchange was developed which played a big role in transmission of data from one computer to the other. The ancient methods of data transmission such as mailing and faxing of documents were done away with. Business partners could therefore conduct their business transactions through a data format that met the required standards in North America. When any order is sent a Value Added Network is used to examine the order before it reaches the recipients processing unit. The electronic data interchange enabled data transfer without requiring human intervention. An English inventor known as Michael Aldrich is well known to have developed the predecessor to online shopping. This came about when Michael and his wife complained about their weekly shopping claiming it was much expensive. They the...