com The e-volution of e-verything into e-business: The e-ra of e-market-led strategic change

It was not long ago that I wrote about the Internet as the arena of the computer nerd’s chat pages with messages like ‘Hi there, I’m Dave. I’m into Country and Western and Airfix’[2], and I sympathized with John Dvorak’s view that the Internet is ‘an overhyped plaything destined to disappoint all but the most masochistic technofreaks . . . Web, schmeb!’[3]. However, times change . . .