Inventors of WWW and E-Commerce

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Who invented WWW?

According to Andrews (2013) a large number of people such as programmers, engineers and scientists had an impact on inventing the Internet, which means it is impossible to credit a single person for this invention. However, Tim Berners-Lee is called "father of the Internet", because in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web (WWW).


Berners-Lee, while he was working in CERN created software, which could store information in different, connected files, called links. This technique is known presently as hypertext (Dennis, 2021). In next years he was working upon techniques, which allows communicating computers with each other. His main goal was to create software for researchers to share the results of their work without exchanging messages. For this purpose, in 1989 he created first web server and web browser (Dennis, 2021).




Who invented E-Commerce?

The idea of doing shopping without leaving home was invented by Michael Aldrich in 1979. In the beginning, the transaction had based on the connection between television, telephone line and transaction processing computer (Aldrich, 2011).


Michael Aldrich invented E-Commerce earlier than the Internet was developed. His idea allowed to use online shopping at home before all of the presents the biggest E-Commerce companies such as Amazon or eBay even exist.

 

References:

Andrews, E., 2019. Who Invented The Internet?. [online] HISTORY. Available at: https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet [Accessed 4 February 2021]. 

Aldrich, M., 2011. The Michael Aldrich Archive - Internet Online Shopping. [online] Aldricharchive.com. Available at: http://www.aldricharchive.com/internet_online_shopping.html [Accessed 4 February 2021].

Dennis, M., 2021. Tim Berners-Lee | Biography, Education, Contributions, & Facts. [online] Encyclopedia Britannica. Available at: <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Berners-Lee> [Accessed 4 February 2021].

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