In The Beginning

What was your first Amazon.com purchase?

Mine was a book, "Designing and Using ActiveX Controls".

I bought it December 10, 1997, when they were still just a bookstore.

I got a free mouse pad with my order! It had the famous Groucho Marx quote on it: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

12 thoughts on “In The Beginning”

  1. Mark Losinger

    WOW. For some odd reason, I didn’t use Amazon at all until January 1, 2009. I must have been shopping from actual retailers up until that point.

    A pump for bike tires.

    1. cleek Post author

      i liked going to bookstores. but once i figured out that Amazon had everything i stopped bothering hunting through the stacks of whatever chains were around.

  4. dbati

    Mine was October of 2001…dark times made a little brighter by the purchase:

    Apples in Stereo “Let’s Go EP”

    I was a longtime user of CDNow (from the mid-90’s). I’ve still got a CDNow ball cap (that was a giveaway with an order) that I still wear now and again.

  6. Countme-a-Demon

    Bought a Kindle for my son in 2011.

    Since then, lots and lots of books and some CDs. Some kitchen items, and underwear too.

    I love meat bookstores, however, and frequent one of the great remaining independents, the Tattered Cover, in Denver, and can’t resist purchasing something during those visits.

    1. cleek Post author

      last bookstore i bought anything from was in New Orleans this July. there’s a tiny little bookshop on an alley off Jackson Square, next to a bar that we were crushing. i bought ‘On Bullshit’ and ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’.

  7. Jewish Steel

    July of 2010 (I’m a last-adopter) The Sid and Nancy soundtrack and the Repo Man soundtrack! :D I had both of these on tape.

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