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20 years ago was the year 2000. Amazon and eBay were founded in 1995. Also: imagine you could write what you want on a ground up dead tree, drop it in a specia
by notJim 7y ago
20 years ago was the year 2000. Amazon and eBay were founded in 1995.
Also: imagine you could write what you want on a ground up dead tree, drop it in a special box and a few weeks later, the item shows up. That's a catalog, and Sears was making them in the late 1800s. I bet there are older examples.
- wott 7y ago> imagine you could write what you want on a ground up dead tree, drop it in a special box And then, later, we could also order by phone and credit card, just giving our card number over the phone (since we didn't expect to be dealing with or be surrounded by assholes, like nowadays on the IoA) and getting the items after a few days (since the standard Post was better organised than the pitiful mess it has become now).
- Izkata 7y ago> imagine you could write what you want on a ground up dead tree, drop it in a special box and a few weeks later, the item shows up. And suddenly I'm reminded of If all stories were written like science fiction stories https://web.archive.org/web/20040929041451/http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com:80/flight.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040929041451/http://www.shrove...