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English inventor, innovator and entrepreneur
- Michael John Aldrich (22 August 1941 – 19 May 2014) was an English inventor, innovator and entrepreneur. In 1979 he invented online shopping to enable online transaction processing between consumers and businesses, or between one business and another, a technique known later as e-commerce.
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Michael John Aldrich (22 August 1941 – 19 May 2014) was an English inventor, innovator and entrepreneur. [1] In 1979 he invented online shopping [ 2 ] to enable online transaction processing between consumers and businesses, [ 3 ] or between one business and another, a technique known later as e-commerce . [ 4 ]
In 1979 English inventor and entrepreneur Michael Aldrich invented online shopping, or teleshopping, to enable online transaction processing between consumers and businesses, or from business to business.
Michael Aldrich was an innovator in a large number of speciality data processing techniques and processes including large scale data capture with keyboards and scanners, real-time minicomputers and networks, handprint data capture and voice response systems.
Sep 16, 2013 · Michael Aldrich with one of the online shopping gadgets. Videotex was already being used by companies to do business, most notably the travel industry. But it was a Gateshead Council...
In 1979 Michael Aldrich connected a domestic television by telephone line to a real-time transaction processing computer and invented what he called teleshopping. Today it is called online shopping, e-commerce, and e-business and it is a fast-growing worldwide multi-billion dollar business.
This is the story of the invention of eCommerce and Michael Aldrich, the godfather of online shopping. Early days Michael John Aldrich was born in the UK in 1941 and after earning a history degree from the University of Hull, he got into the nascent computing industry of the 1960s, eventually joining the board of Redifon in 1977.
Michael Aldrich realised from the beginning of his work on online shopping that the traditional TV as a computer interface device had real limitations. He also saw the need for high capacity telecommunications links to the home. This is what we call broadband today.
