We take a look around and we have technology everywhere; Smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and more. This access to technology gives us the access we need, access to send emails anywhere, look up information we may need, and able to purchase a shirt or even book a hotel online all from a phone or tablet. Being able to purchase items online is not new, it has been around for years, the thought of this is call ecommerce, ecommerce is the buying and selling or products or services via the internet (Merchant). Before the internet, before ecommerce, we had to go to Wal-Mart, or go into a GNC to get our vitamins that we need. We would spend so much time driving to store after store to get the things we needed, time and gas wasted. So when did online shopping start and how did it come about?

The idea of online shopping dates back several decades, it was just not something that was thought of here recently in past few years. The idea of shopping and making purchases online were an idea of man named, Michael Aldrich. It was Michael Aldrich that was credited in the developing the start of online shopping (Merchant). It was Aldrich who back in the late 1970s, that took an old television and connected to a telephone and coined it "teleshopping" which he meant as shopping from a distance, this would be the start of the idea he had in mind (Merchant). The start and creation of the world wide web, or what we like to call the internet would be the milestone that was needed to reach and accomplish Aldrich's dream and goal of ecommerce and being able to make purchases from home or anywhere of that matter. The 1990s and early 2000s is what really got ecommerce and online shopping started, transactions were not that common yet, and that was mainly due to the high cost of computers. In the early 1990s and on up to the early 2000s, not everyone could afford a computer in