The First Thing Sold on Amazon
You may not remember this, but long before Amazon became the e-commerce giant that it is, the website was strictly a bookseller. It would take several years after its founding for Amazon to being selling other products.
Because of that, the first item bought on Amazon was, of course, a book. On April 3, 1995, John Wainwright purchased Douglas Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. Nearly 14 years later, Amazon now sells basically everything under the sun (and there’s a building on the Amazon campus allegedly named after Wainwright).