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Ten years on and the Net is still confounding the pundits

Like all great ideas the Net was received initially with skepticism, disdain and dismissed as a fad. A columnist for Time magazine explaining why the Net would never go mainstream wrote: "It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals. Newsweek put the doubts more bluntly in a February 1995 headline: "THE INTERNET? BAH!" The article was written by astrophysicist and Net maven Cliff Stoll, who captured the prevailing skepticism of virtual communities and online shopping with one word: "baloney."

Ten years on from the above comments and I don't know if anyone would have predicted the Internet would be this big. Online shopping has found its place in the world. As the Internet continues to grow, more people will experience buying, selling or trading goods online. The article in Ohmynews.com points out that:

The cost of connecting keeps falling, as a result the Net has grown and is growing at an exponential rate connecting millions of people in a global conversation of unprecedented proportions

Check out the article by clicking the link above for some interesting statistics on the Internet usage throughout the world.