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The world's first 'online shopper'
Discover the story of Mrs Snowball, the world's first online shopper.
The first experiments in computer shopping took place in southern England in 1984.
Michael Aldrich connected a modified domestic television via a telephone line to a real- time, multi-user transaction processing computer.
A woman called Mrs Snowball trialled this Videotex system to order her food shopping from Tescos using her TV remote control.
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