Posted by axxxr
Here's something i did'nt know and i bet i lot of you did'nt know either,the first item to sell on ebay was a broken laser pointer for £14.00 and it of course belonged to ebay's founder Pierre Omidyar.
eBay was created in September 1995,so its 10 years old now.Pierre originally called it "AuctionWeb" and the company name was Echo Bay,.."ebayAuctionWeb"was the domain name for the company.
In 1997 Pierre changed the company name to eBay and the rest they say is history.
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Posted by Cornholio_666
They said on the gadget show he was going to call the site EchoBay, but somebody snatched it up before he did.
Posted by axxxr
The original company name was echobay!
Posted by vanquish
eBay is much better, and because of Email and everything, it kind of makes it Bay as in i dunno an auction place and E as in the internet...
Posted by Rocky B.
E as in electronic you mean? I agree, does sound better this way.
Posted by batesie
Well, i had (auction bay) www.abay.com but it never took off...
Posted by axxxr
Did you also know that google was originally called google.stanford...stanford being the university site from where google was launched.
Posted by batesie
there you go! AOL used to be called America Online!
Posted by axxxr
How long before esato becomes... eto?..sto?..ato?..esto..?..sorry!
Posted by EastCoastStar
so noone noticed this?? kinda confused me @axxxr!!
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you said... september 1995, so its 10 years old this month... its december?!? u confuse me!
Posted by axxxr
Oh sorry,seems like that was a typo on my part,it was actually 10 years in september gone not december.