In this week’s “Right Angle: Backstage” show, Steve mentioned his first Amazon order. I thought this would be a fun game, so I immediately looked up my first one.
It was January 27, 1999 and it was a CD of the D’Oyly Carte company’s recording of Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore. I bought it because I was in the chorus of a production of the opera, and wanted to use it to help me learn it. I still have it, but it (along with a box full of other CDs) awaits cleaning from damage in Hurricane Harvey.
My second order, also dated January 27, 1999 was an order I placed for my dad. It was a gift for a cousin of four paperback novels by Joe R. Lansdale.
Who’s next? Scott?
15 replies on “What was your first Amazon order?”
I was also a late-comer to Amazon. My first order was in 2006:
Chilton’s Guide Total Car Care Guide for the 1993-98 Nissan 240SX (and Altima). $9.95! I still have that car! It’s my daily driver, with 356,000 miles and still runs like a champ.
I didn’t order anything else for 2 years after that.
My first order -on record- included a book on digital photography and a book on care and maintenance of Bonsai trees. May 2007. 🙂
My order history at Amazon only goes back to 2000. The first order of that year was for Season 1 of the X-Files. I’ve since upgraded those DVDs to Blu-Ray, but I still watch them!
Great thread Laura. I love Amazon but was not an early adopter. My first order was Oct 2006 a “Deluxe Backlit Lithium Digital Tire Gauge”. I really like the reporting features in Amazon. I buy a lot of stuff from them now not only for convenience but I can see the reports and know what I ordered and when for warranties and repeat buys or whatever..
December 28, 2004 | The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror, by Nathan Sharansky https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586482610/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_SLYZEbTY62M79
Wow, was I late to the party with my first purchase in 2009! I bought an AC power adapter for a Gateway (Remember them? “You’ve got a friend in the business”) Solo Laptop computer. I didn’t buy anything else until 2013 where I picked up an amazing replica of a Star Trek TOS uniform top.
Knock it off….it was Halloween!
I do remember Gateway Tim. Did your Gateway some boxed in a cow print cardboard box?
Are you kidding? Of course. a Gateway 386dx. Everything came in a Cow Box. In a world of IBM which so reminded me of big brother, it was the Gateway advertisments in computer magazines (remember them?) where the characters were all Gateway employees that made me a fan. The computers worked too.
Haha, love it “386dx”. Computer magazines…. Oh ya. I spent much my career in finance and sales support in the computer industry and loved fiddling around adding things to my PC’s in the 80’s and 90’s. I was really lucky to have a lot of HW and SW engineers as friends that kept me from destroying my stuff. Always thought Gateway had a fantastic branding strategy.
I had a buddy from San Francisco who not only was top professional freestyle skateboarder, but was also a full blown hardware geek in the early 80’s. One day he came down with a box of ‘bare bones’ components and we assembled a 486 on my kitchen table and installed windows ver. ‘early’. It worked. He moved on to a hardware position for Sacramento Government. Good days!
I am very much a rookie when it comes to Amazon. My first order was a set of headphones, a set of glass drinking straws, and a box set of a TV show for my sister. That was only about 4 years ago.
A paperback copy of John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids
1996, some Rumpole books which would have been B-Day presents for my Dad.
My first Amazon purchase was a gift card in 1999. The first thing I bought from them was a Toshiba DVD player in 2000
I wondered too but wasn’t going to look, til I saw this post… April 30th 2000, AMC Coupes, Sedans, and Wagons, 1975-88 (Chilton Total Car Care Series Manuals) 1st Edition . I kinda miss my 86 Eagle. Kinda.