[Stein Husten]

Out of the many platforms that have been tried in the stock trade online medium is now the most popular. The availability of faster secure servers has led to a revolution of sorts. The WAIS, Gopher and the www are pioneering servers and they registered phenomenal growth after the commercialization of the Internet. The World Wide Web gradually pushed WAIS and gopher into oblivion as it offered links to the related web pages called hyperlinks.

However, the www experienced exponential growth and the key underlying technical idea behind this technology was the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). The HTML helped the user to write code without being weighed down by the different rules and regulations that governed other programming languages. The HTML was so easy and even now, a large number of professionals use it for varied tasks.

Consider the issues involving Hyper Links. It is actually a protocol used by the www for transferring information between a client requesting information and the server more popularly known as the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Hence, all the addresses on the World Wide Web begin with http://. These addresses are called Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) because they aid the browsers to find where the documents as well as the information are located. This protocol enables netizens or users to hop from one link to another on the internet and this process is more commonly known as surfing the net.

The modern means of communication through the internet was a totally unknown phenomenon to the bygone generation. To enter into the stock trade online platforms offer much flexibility unseen elsewhere. It is now possible to buy and sell stocks through the online medium. A customer need a bank account and the transactions through the online medium must get the requisite sanction from the concerned bank. In addition, when the e-commerce facility is enabled, it is possible to transfer and receive payments through the web. Thus, the modern online stock trade is leveraging upon the fast developments in technology like never before.