# What was the first thing you ever ordered from Amazon? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020 "2009-01-06T01:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/61 "2009-01-07T16:48:20Z")
I posted mine over there, yesterday, but here it is again: > [@](#): > > Order Date: January 10, 2001 > Order #: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Recipient: TroubleAgain > Items: > 1 of: The Last Unicorn > Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC > 1 of: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado / D’Oyly Carte Opera Company > Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC > 1 of: The Lady’s Not For Burning. > Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/62 "2009-01-07T16:58:06Z")
Wow I’m such a nerd. October 1999, my very first order. Two VHS tapes of the Earthworm Jim cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Leah\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Leah\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leah_M)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/63 "2009-01-07T17:06:26Z")
I can’t really remember when it was, possibly 1999 or 2000. It was the Les Miserables - Complete Symphonic Recording on CD. It might have been the first thing I bought online, period. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/64 "2009-01-07T17:15:52Z")
Huh. I’m pretty sure I bought stuff before the year 2000. But according to them, it was a copy of Dorothy Dunnett’s “Gemini” and a Harry Potter book. Looking at my buying history is … odd. Some years I’ll make maybe two purchases. Other years, it goes on for three pages. Part of this depends on whether or not I’m participating in their Prime shipping or not. If I’m not, I bundle my purchases to get the free shipping. I apparently have a habit of mildly splurging right after I get my tax refund – I’ll usually put in an order for a handful of books in late April or early May. I’m getting a weird sense of time displacement looking at some of the items. Some of them I could have sworn I bought maybe a couple of years ago (but it was 7!). ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/65 "2009-01-07T17:36:12Z")
The earliest that I have access to: June 7 1998 - 1 of: The Secret of Sierra Madre : The Man Who Was B. Traven Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC - 1 of: The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC - 1 of: The Death Ship : The Story of an American Sailor Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC - 1 of: Moby Dick Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC - 1 of: Nostromo (Wordsworth Collection) Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC - 1 of: Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions) Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC Joe ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/66 "2009-01-07T17:50:12Z")
In October of 2003: 1 of: Night of the Living Mad Libs Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC 1 of: Haunted Mad Libs Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC 1 of: Skateboarding [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION] Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC 1 of: Wüsthof Grand Prix Kitchen Shears Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC Shopping for my kids and my kitchen, evidently. We still do like our Mad Libs. I may have to order a few more; I have an eight year old who loves to play. My teenager who wanted the Skateboarding magazine has since put aside his skateboard and picked up a guitar. Sometimes I buy him strings from Amazon when I need to get an order up to the 25.00 threshhold. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/67 "2009-01-07T18:02:06Z")
According to my account history on Amazon, in December of '99, I bought _Affirmation_, a CD by Savage Garden. Must’ve been a Christmas present for my wife. I’m pretty sure I had bought other things (i.e., books) earlier, but it’s possible that I didn’t set up the account until then. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/68 "2009-01-07T18:10:56Z")
In July, 2007: 1 of: Creative EP-630 - Headphones ( in-ear ear-bud ) Very good headphones, but now I’m rocking V-Moda Vibe headphones, which are even better. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/69 "2009-01-07T18:20:36Z")
September 1, 2003 - _Good Omens_ by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/70 "2009-01-07T19:26:21Z")
Huh, mine only goes back to 2001. We must’ve moved or gotten a new internet provider around that time: - 1 of: Back Roads [Mass Market Paperback] by O’Dell, Tawni Sold by: vaveggieman Order Date: September 4, 2001 - 1 of: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense [VHS Tape] (1999) Demme, Jonathan; Worrell… Sold by: Jean Singleton Order Date: August 29, 2001 - 1 of: Eddie’s Bastard by Kowalski, William Sold by: jlilken Order Date: June 27, 2001 \* 1 of: Snugli - Out and About Soft Carrier Sold by: [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), LLC Order Date: June 26, 2001 \* 1 of: Gun, With Occasional Music–[Paperback] Lethem, Jonathan Sold by: fictionaddiction ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/71 "2009-01-07T19:35:05Z")
In August 2003, three Johnny Cash CDs: At Folsom Prison Unchained American Recordings They’re still coming up regularly on my iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/72 "2009-01-07T21:11:56Z")
December 1998 A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry : Their Rites, Literature, and History/2 Vols in 1 (Ars Magna Latomorum : And of Cognate Instituted Mysteries) By Arthur Edward Waite ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020/73 "2009-01-07T22:24:24Z")
August of 1997 (I hadn’t recalled my orders went that far back!): Four books: - **Mystery! : A Celebration : Stalking Public Television’s Greatest Sleuths** - **The Rise of Endymion : A Novel** …and two volumes of the “Bone” series of graphic novels: - **Eyes of the Storm** - **The Dragonslayer** I recall regularly watching “Mystery!” on PBS at the time. I was and am a fan of Dan Simmons, author of **The Rise of Endymion** And my discovery of Jeff Smith’s “Bone” series was the start of my still current enthusiasm for graphic novels. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-ordered-from-amazon/480020.md?page=3)