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by kurttheviking 818 days ago
This was a fun one to lookup. eBay 2001, Amazon 1999 (first order was a book I needed for high school as well as VHS tape for the movie Heat), but my winner is Yahoo Mail 1997. I'm sure my AIM account would be older but is long since deleted.
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zigman1 818 days ago
How prevalent was Amazon in 1999? Was it the usual place to order books, or would your schoolmates give you a dead stare if you said that you ordered it from there?
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lb1lf 818 days ago
Not OP, but at my alma mater, NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, Amazon was definitely common (at least in geeky circles) in 1999 - lots of textbooks were cheaper than at the campus bookstore, at least until Amazon purchases became widespread enough to hurt their bottom line.

I think I may have created my Amazon account in 1998, but my first order was placed in January 1999.

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