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In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]
I always forget Amazon's been around that long.
smhenderson
on Aug 16, 2019
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Yeah, IIRC they were still just a book store back then with B&N competing nicely with them. Seems like such a long time ago now!
hudibras
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That same order from June 2000 included five other books and one Sega Dreamcast game (Grand Theft Auto 2), so they must have had a few non-book departments back then.
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I guess getting into other media was probably the logical first step so makes sense.
PhasmaFelis
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They started selling other media like music and videogames fairly early, but it was quite a while before it became a place to buy literally anything.
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