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Michael Aldrich

English inventor, innovator and entrepreneur

Life: 1941 – 2014
Born: August 22, 1941
Died: May 19, 2014
Nationality: United Kingdom

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. 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 f