What is the Origin of Litecoin?

After the inception of Bitcoin, Charlie Lee, former Google employee had the vision to create a cryptocurrency (Litecoin), as an altcoin to Bitcoin. Litecoin represents transaction for cheaper and everyday purposes. It was conceived to act like pure digital money. Litecoin was released via an open-source client on GitHub on October 7, 2011. After that, Litecoin is gaining a lot of attention from the market, and becomes Top 5 and Top 10 of the highest market capitalization cryptocurrencies. The coin was established to allow investors to diversify their investments. It was conceived to act like a digital silver.