English entrepreneur Michael Aldrich was a pioneer of online shopping in 1979. His system linked a modified domestic TV to a real-time transaction processing pc by way of a home telephone line. During the Eighties he designed, manufactured, offered, installed, maintained and supported many online purchasing techniques, utilizing videotex expertise. These methods which additionally offered voice response and handprint processing pre-date the Internet and the World Wide Web, the IBM PC, and Microsoft MS-DOS, and were installed mainly within the UK by large corporations. They centered on shopping motivations and located that the variety of products out there and the …
