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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 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).
