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I asked DH to look at some recent orders from Amazon. And he took it a bit further (as usual) and decided to see how far he could look back. And all orders are there!
On April 30, 1998, my first Amazon order was 3 books on finances, which included:
......drumroll.....
If you ordered back in the 90s, you probably ordered books. Back then Amazon was pretty much a book retailer. In the 80s and early 90s we bought a lot of books at a popular Austin discount book chain called "BookStop". We even had Michael Dell step out of his fancy custom Honda NSX next to us one day when we visited the store. Even he was not above personally shopping for books sold at a discount. I'm not sure what happened to BookStop*. By the later 90s, they had markedly declined, and a monster Barnes and Noble store had taken over a shopping center across the street. But as neat of a browsing experience as it was to visit, Barnes and Noble didn't offer much in the way of discounts, so we were looking for an alternative and started ordering books from Amazon. Never stopped.
In the 2000s, Amazon became the purveyor of way more than books as everyone here knows. Witness http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/what-is-the-last-thing-you-ordered-from-amazon-72064.html which was started by W2R in May of 2014, and has 555 replies!!!
You can look up your order history under "your account" on the Amazon site, and you should be able to find your first order.
*What happened was, BookStop came under the control of a group that ultimately booted the founder and then sold it to Barnes and Noble. No wonder!
On April 30, 1998, my first Amazon order was 3 books on finances, which included:
......drumroll.....
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D. The active link on the order history still works!
If you ordered back in the 90s, you probably ordered books. Back then Amazon was pretty much a book retailer. In the 80s and early 90s we bought a lot of books at a popular Austin discount book chain called "BookStop". We even had Michael Dell step out of his fancy custom Honda NSX next to us one day when we visited the store. Even he was not above personally shopping for books sold at a discount. I'm not sure what happened to BookStop*. By the later 90s, they had markedly declined, and a monster Barnes and Noble store had taken over a shopping center across the street. But as neat of a browsing experience as it was to visit, Barnes and Noble didn't offer much in the way of discounts, so we were looking for an alternative and started ordering books from Amazon. Never stopped.
In the 2000s, Amazon became the purveyor of way more than books as everyone here knows. Witness http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/what-is-the-last-thing-you-ordered-from-amazon-72064.html which was started by W2R in May of 2014, and has 555 replies!!!
You can look up your order history under "your account" on the Amazon site, and you should be able to find your first order.
*What happened was, BookStop came under the control of a group that ultimately booted the founder and then sold it to Barnes and Noble. No wonder!
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