John Wainwright, a computer scientist, ordered the first book Amazon ever sold. The book was Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought.
As the first non-employee Amazon order, the book was sold months before Amazon's official opening date.
Pictured above is the package Wainwright received from Amazon: the book and a response "Thanks for shopping at Amazon.com!"
When he was asked on Q&A website Quora, Wainwright still remembers the sale, but he doesn't need to: "It's still in my order history listing," he said.
