（一）世界电子商务发展迅猛1996年全球有近4000万人连接因特网。到1997年底使用因特网的人已超过1亿；1996年12月登录的因特网域名约627万个，到1997年底因特网域名已成倍增长到150万个；因特网上的信息流通量每一百天翻一番：1996年CISCO网络连接设备公司在因特网上的销售仅 (A) the rapid development of world e-commerce In 1996, nearly 40 million people around the world connected to the Internet. Over 100 million people had used the Internet by the end of 1997; about 6.27 million Internet domain names were logged in in December 1996, and Internet domain names have doubled to 1.5 million by the end of 1997; the volume of information traffic on the Internet has risen every hundredth of a turn Some: 1996 CISCO network connection equipment company sales on the Internet only