Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Short Stories of Online Shopping - Chinese Version (网上购物的小故事)

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Hello, everyone! Today, we are going to talk about the background of online shopping. First of all, there are a lot of people may not know, the Internet began as a military, that is, only the military personnel can used it. Until year 1989, the Internet was officially released to all people to use. Since then, only people gradually aware of internet, and become more common. In year 1990, the first Internet server and browser were set up.

After this, the first online bookstore was appeared in the earth! If you think it is the famous Amazon bookstore, then it would be a serious mistake! It was a now little-known name, because it has unfortunately failed. However, where a walk will leave marks, it is the true ancestor of online bookstores! For your information, the name of this bookstore called the Book Stacks Unlimited. It started with the original idea to offer every book ever published to everyone in an easily accessible way begins in year 1992. But, eventually it failed. This provides a good opportunity for other companies to share this wonderful concept.

The release of the first online bookstore did not sweep the globe. Instead, there was a leader quietly led to this trend. Have a guess, who is the leader? It is not eBay; it is not Amazon bookstore; it is, Pizza Hut! Get it correct? Whether right or wrong, give a big applause for yourself! Here, for your information, Pizza Hut is the first national chain to offer online ordering with the option of home delivery. In 1994, Santa Cruz, California Pizza Hut restaurant becomes their restaurant of white rat to test whether the concept will be successful.

Then, the widely known Amazon bookstore was launched in year 1995. Originally, it was created to have the same concept with Book Stacks Unlimited. But due to consumers are more towards to products which are other than books, smart Amazon.com provides many other products in order to fulfill their huge demand.

Finally, the finale on stage is the most famous online shopping website, the world's largest Internet marketplace --- eBay! Heroes do not ask origin based on the truth, thus, it should be very few people who know the father of eBay? Actually, in September 1995, Pierre Omidyar San Jose coded this online auction house website. At that time, there was only a computer which was in his living room and whole stacks of programming code in his mind to be with him. Three years later, eBay was launched in the market. And this founder, Pierre Omidyar San Jose then, as we think, has become a billionaire!

Until now, there are countless online shopping websites and the items to be sold are more than what we can imagine. To classify them, there would be including beauty, perfume, books, clothes, shoes, jewelry, toys, music, electronics, and so on.
Well, that’s all for today. Hope you all get some useful knowledge now. I also hope that I have provided you some topics to be discussed, such as, who is the leader who leads the trend of online shopping?

Glossary:
互联网- internet
伺服器- server
浏览器-browser
程式码-programming code

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