What do computer skins, green tea and a solitaire engagement ring have in common? All of these items can be bought without ever leaving your home through internet shopping.

Internet shopping has become such a way of life for many people that we forget how new this way of life really is. Even so, it has not only changed industrialized countries, the internet is finding use in far away places that we may have never thought of before. Third world countries have people that telecommute to make far more money than ever before possible in their homeland.

As the internet has grown, so has internet shopping. Today almost anything can be purchased on line. In 1994, there was a fledgling bookstore that started selling books online. That company was Amazon. It was not the first bookstore to sell books online, but today it is the largest.

In that same year, pizza hut started to allow customers to order their favorite pizza online for pick up or delivery. Several other successful stores began in the same year.

The internet giant, E-Bay did not begin until 1995. Their first sale was a broken laser pointer. It was sold to a collector. Now the site has grown very large and often offers mulit-million dollar items as well as those that will sell for under a dollar.

Although it grew slower at first, Craigslist began the same year as e-Bay. That service now serves almost six hundred cities in fifty different countries.

If you need groceries, but do not want to leave the house, just enter your order online at several of the grocery retailer sites and they will be delivered within hours if you live in a major city.

You can even order your replacement computer online. Dell was a small computer company that had been relatively successful, until they started selling computers on their own website in 1996. Now they are a computer giant.

Whatever you are shopping for, you will very likely find it online at one of the online retailers. There are groceries and computers as well as used cars or livestock. All are on one of the many websites that are found online.

Online security continues to grow better each day as retailers use encryption to keep your information secure. Online shopping will continue to grow and may someday outgrow the brick and mortar stores. Someday, they may just be distribution outlets where your orders are processed and then shipped directly to your own home.

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