Brick and mortar

Bricks and mortar retail shops on Marylebone High Street, London

The Galanterie-, Kurz- und Spielwaren-Laden store in Uetersen, Germany in 1901

A fruit stand at a village market in Afghanistan.

Bricks and mortar retail shops along the Fredrikinkatu street in the center of Helsinki, Finland

Organization or business in a building or other structure.

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Video rental shop

The exterior of a video rental store in Austin, Texas

Display case of DVDs in a former Blockbuster video rental store

Video rental store in Berwyn, Illinois in the US.

With the introduction of the thin, lightweight DVD disc, movie rental by mail services became feasible, introducing a new source of competition for brick and mortar stores.

Redbox automated retail kiosk for DVD and video game disc rental

Videofirma Makuuni, former video rental shop on Hallituskatu Street in Tampere, Finland in 2015

A video rental store in Salzburg, Austria in 2009

A video rental shop/store is a physical retail business that rents home videos such as movies, prerecorded TV shows, video game discs and other content.

Internet

Global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

ICANN headquarters in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

2007 map showing submarine fiberoptic telecommunication cables around the world.

Packet routing across the Internet involves several tiers of Internet service providers.

Number of mobile cellular subscriptions 2012–2016

As user data is processed through the protocol stack, each abstraction layer adds encapsulation information at the sending host. Data is transmitted over the wire at the link level between hosts and routers. Encapsulation is removed by the receiving host. Intermediate relays update link encapsulation at each hop, and inspect the IP layer for routing purposes.

Conceptual data flow in a simple network topology of two hosts (A and B) connected by a link between their respective routers. The application on each host executes read and write operations as if the processes were directly connected to each other by some kind of data pipe. After the establishment of this pipe, most details of the communication are hidden from each process, as the underlying principles of communication are implemented in the lower protocol layers. In analogy, at the transport layer the communication appears as host-to-host, without knowledge of the application data structures and the connecting routers, while at the internetworking layer, individual network boundaries are traversed at each router.

A DNS resolver consults three name servers to resolve the domain name user-visible "www.wikipedia.org" to determine the IPV4 Address 207.142.131.234

Creating a subnet by dividing the host identifier

This NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.

Share of population using the Internet. See or edit source data.

Internet users per 100 population members and GDP per capita for selected countries.

Internet users per 100 inhabitants Source: International Telecommunication Union.

Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union.

'''Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population''' Source: International Telecommunication Union.

'''Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population''' Source: International Telecommunication Union.

Banner in Bangkok during the 2014 Thai coup d'état, informing the Thai public that 'like' or 'share' activities on social media could result in imprisonment (observed 30 June 2014).

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Online shopping has grown exponentially for major retailers, small businesses, and entrepreneurs, as it enables firms to extend their "brick and mortar" presence to serve a larger market or even sell goods and services entirely online.

E-commerce

Activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet.

Store closing flags outside a Toys R Us in Deptford, New Jersey. Despite investments, the chain struggled to win market share in the age of digital commerce.

Brick and mortar retailers are struggling because of online retailer's ability to offer lower prices and higher efficiency.

Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic (analog or digital) equipment intended for everyday use, typically in private homes.

A Radio Shack consumer electronics store in a mall

A typical CoCo 3 computer system, from the 1980s

A modern flat panel, HDTV television set

Gramophone factory in Hannover-Nordstadt

This picture illustrates how the mobile phone industry evolved to what we see today as modern smartphones

Guide to Greener Electronics 2017 findings

Electronic waste: discarded electronic equipment

Consumer electronics stores may be "brick and mortar" physical retail stores, online stores, or combinations of both.

Amazon (company)

American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

The company's largest campus outside the United States was inaugurated in Hyderabad, India in September 2019.

Twitch at the Electronic Entertainment Expo

Whole Foods Market store in Ann Arbor, Michigan

A sticker expressing an anti-Amazon message is pictured on the back of a street sign in Seattle.

Amazon.fr fulfillment center in Lauwin-Planque, France

Amazon.es fulfillment center in San Fernando de Henares, Spain

Amazon.co.uk fulfillment center in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK

Amazon.de fulfillment center in Graben, Germany

Amazon.co.jp fulfillment center in Ichikawa, Japan

Amazon fulfillment center in Macon, Georgia, U.S.

Its acquisition of Whole Foods in August 2017 for US$13.4 billion substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.

Website

Collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

Server-side programming language usage in 2016.

Advertising products or services available at a brick and mortar business

E-government

Use of technological communications devices, such as computers and the Internet, to provide public services to citizens and other persons in a country or region.

E-Government encompasses more than twenty tools and databases providing public services.

Once e-government technologies become more sophisticated, citizens will be likely be encouraged to interact electronically with the government for more transactions, as e-services are much less costly than brick and mortar service offices (physical buildings) staffed by civil servants.