"Vica versa it's really helped as well, " he says, explaining that he is currently taking a class in e-commerce in which students usually have to use invented sample business data.

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E-Trade traces its roots to 1982, long before the Web was invented.

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Doyle, who invented the first test for O157:H7 in food, is working on developing harmless E. coli that would leave no room for the toxic ones.

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When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he created a legacy that will be hard to dismiss in a matter of e-years (since time goes by so fast between new apps and phones).

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