Javacript: Tutorial 1, Section A, Exercise 6, TextFormats.htm -- by Pat Moss
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Just a year or two ago no one would have believed it.
Even those pundits who were most optimistic
about the Internet’s future in the world of
commerce and business would have been surprised to look ahead a few years
such as X2 and Y3
to the present and see how pervasive and persuasive the
Web has become in day-to-day life.
People shop on it. Investors trade securities on it.
Businesses market and sell their products and services
on it. Ads in magazines and newspapers, radio and
television spots, mailers, and brochures direct consumers
to it. "E-commerce" has become a household term. People
who don’t have access to the Internet are fast becoming
as out-of-date and out-of-touch as people without
telephones were 40 years ago.
What is perhaps more surprising than anything about the
rise of the Internet is its phenomenal invasion of the
business world. Not long ago it was a novelty – a plaything
for kids and even adults who could afford to "play around."
Today it is a mainspring of success in the world of money-making.
Looking for a business opportunity for your future? Thinking of
expanding an existing business? Then think about the Internet.
With your own Web site (sometimes referred to as simply a "Web"
or "URL"), you can market what you sell to the rapidly multiplying
world of Internet users not only locally or nationally, but
internationally. You can focus on the types of buyers you’re after,
let them look and read and even listen to information designed to
get them to buy, take their orders automatically over the Web, and
accept their credit card payments via immediate online payment options.
In fact, there is little you can’t do over the Web these days, and the
already narrow parameters of what can’t be done are shrinking by the day.