Amazon.com went live on this day in 1995
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2:11Now PlayingAmazon.com went live on this day in 1995
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as posted by the channelOne single book, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. It's a dense 1995 book by the pioneer Douglas Hofstadter on the mechanisms of computer modeling. But it gained notoriety for its distinction of being the first ever item ever sold to the public on Amazon.com. It was on this day, July 16th, 1995, when a former hedge fund executive named Jeff Bezos, who had traded in his life on Wall Street for an entrepreneurial dream out there in Seattle, pushed the button that made Amazon.com live to the public, selling its first ever item.
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