Chad asks “What was your first Amazon order? (and why George Jones matters).”
I looked mine up:
It’s interesting that they’re both photography books, since I seem to have taken it up again, but I don’t think those are my first items purchased. I’m pretty I bought some stuff earlier than that, because of where I was working at the time. Of course, this was back when Netscape Navigator was made by an outfit called Mosaic Communications and was still in .9x release numbers and Amazon didn’t sell anything but books đŸ˜‰
According to this article, it was founded in 1994 and here it’s listed having opened for sales in 1995. That makes sense.
Anyway, it’s interesting to consider how long Amazon has been around and how much things have changed as a result.