Explain the role of World Wide Web in the field of e-commerce. 

In the 1990s, the arrival of the World Wide Web on the Internet had shown a turning point in e-commerce by giving an easy-to-use technological solution to the problems of information publishing and dissemination. The web made e-commerce a cheaper way of doing business and enabled more diverse business activities.  Use of the Internet and web-site is to permit vendors and service providers to do business on-line.  The Internet supports e-commerce and it also needs an infrastructure which permits customers to visit virtual shopping malls for items on sale.  This method was developed in 1999. E-commerce needs a secure way to transfer the money electronically.