Invention of Online shopping and WWW

 

(Chris Parker, 2000)

Online shopping was invented by Michael Aldrich in 1979. He connected a modified domestic TV to a computer using a telephone line, which allowed him to take orders and transmit them to a shop's computer. This is considered the first known example of online shopping.

The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN, the European physics research organization. Berners-Lee developed the first web browser and server, and created the first website, which provided information about the World Wide Web project.

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Michael Aldrich Invents Online Shopping (no date) Michael Aldrich Invents Online Shopping : History of Information. Available at: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4528 (Accessed: January 25, 2023).

parker, C. (no date) What is my IP address - see your public address - ipv4 & ipv6. Available at: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ (Accessed: January 25, 2023).

Tim Berners-Lee: Information management: A proposal (CERN 1989) www ... (no date). Available at: https://compbiozurich.org/pdf/1989-03-12___Berners-Lee.pdf (Accessed: January 25, 2023).