Michael Aldrich
English inventor, innovator and entrepreneur · United Kingdom · On the map · Founders · Lived 1941 to 2014 · aged 72
Michael John Aldrich 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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In 1980 he invented the Teleputer, a multi-purpose home infotainment centre that was a fusion of PC, TV and Telecom networking technologies. In 1981, he developed the concept of interactive broadband local loop cable TV for mass market consumer telecommunications.
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