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Old 07-19-2010, 11:51 PM
 
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It seems like only yesterday Amazon.com was a cute little online baby, shipping out books from a garage and saying the darndest things, and now it's a 15-year-old teenager that sometimes sasses back and gets sent to its room. Time takes a look back at the online retail giant as it turned 15 on Friday, and the history of shopping the interwebs.

A Look Back At Online Shopping As Amazon Turns 15 - The Consumerist
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Old 07-20-2010, 10:52 PM
 
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It seems like only yesterday Amazon.com was a cute little online baby, shipping out books from a garage and saying the darndest things, and now it's a 15-year-old teenager that sometimes sasses back and gets sent to its room. Time takes a look back at the online retail giant as it turned 15 on Friday, and the history of shopping the interwebs.
What few people mention is that Amazon's entire business model is predicated upon the willingness of consumers to enter their financial data over the internet. Without that, Amazon's growth would be much slower.
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