Amazon prime my orders history4/2/2024 There is a building on Amazon’s corporate campus called the Wainwright Building. I’d heard that I might be the first non-employee customer, but could not get it confirmed.īTW, I still have the book and the original Amazon packing slip!Īnd indeed, it seems he did! The image you see at the beginning of this post is that same packing slip, provided by Wainwright. I think I’m the customer mentioned in the other answers, I did indeed buy Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts on April 3rd, 1995 (it’s still in my order history listing!). Hofstadter is probably better known for his landmark book, Gödel, Escher, Bach which is a seminal work in the field of symbolic systems and intelligence theory.Īll of this was uncovered a few years ago on Quora when someone asked what the first ever order on Amazon was. So, what was the first item ordered on Amazon?Ī book called, Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies by Douglas Hofstadter. Kaphan told his former co-worker Wainwright about Amazon’s public beta test, and whether by chance or selection, it turned out that the order Wainwright made was the first order ever placed by, and delivered to, someone who wasn’t already an Amazon employee. The First Book Ordered: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies The key developer behind ScriptX? A man by the name of John Wainwright. Prior to joining Amazon, Kaphan had worked at a company called Kaleida Labs, which was a star-crossed joint venture between Apple and IBM, originally targeting CD-ROM production platforms, but pivoting toward developing ScriptX and other object-based computer languages. Key among those early employees was Shel Kaphan, the technical co-founder of Amazon who, along with Paul Davis, essentially developed and designed Amazon’s website and entire back-end. ![]() Part of this testing process included a semi-private “beta” launch of the website that was limited, essentially, to friends and family of the handful of Amazon employees that existed at the time. But unlike other dotcom-era startups at the time, Jeff Bezos did not believe in launching products “quick and dirty.” The website and processes that would eventually become underwent almost a full year of rigorous testing before Amazon’s website officially went live to the public in July of 1995. ![]() was actually founded all the way back in the summer of 1994.
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