Over on birdsite there's a hashtag of #firstAmazonOrder
I preesent to you the pinnacle of bad taste and portents of things to come:
Java in a Nutshell, Deluxe Edition, from June 1997. https://octodon.social/media/A7ejDxHqXWNikkWRuNg
@craigmaloney Were you able to look back in your purchase history that far? If so, I'll be curious to know what mine was.
@craigmaloney @cstanhope Yeah, Amazon has all of the purchase history, along with archived orders that didn't go through. Surprising amount of data in there.
@craigmaloney Oh, man, I'm such a nerd! 😁
A Retargetable C Compiler : Design and Implementation, in May of '97.
@craigmaloney By the way, I have a memory of logging into some place, using telnet, and perusing a catalog and placing an order for a book. This was back when C.O.D. was still a thing, and before Amazon and the era of web everywhere.
@cstanhope Wow. I never had that experience. Best I had was a Gopher client for the place where we worked (College of Engineering, Wayne State).
@cstanhope Well done. :)
@craigmaloney #firstAmazonOrder https://octodon.social/media/UjKg7LJz3TMEsku00Ms
Could have been much worse, I suppose. (Wonderfalls is fucking excellent, btw)