Featured Newsgroup - misc.forsale.non-computer
In honor of the 10th anniversary of online auction giant eBay, PowerUsenet is featuring misc.forsale.non-computer, the home to eBay's (then AuctionWeb) first announcement.
Pierre Omidyar created the code that would become eBay in the late summer of 1995, posting it to his consulting business' website Echo Bay Technology Group (ebay.com). A few days later, after experiencing very little initial traffic, Omidyar posted an announcement to misc.forsale.non-computer listing some items on auction, such as "Autographed Marky Mark Underwear" going for $400 and a "1952 Silver Dawn Rolls Royce" with a (then) current bid of $38,500.
Needless to say, the project took off and by AuctionWeb's first anniversary, Omidyar was earning enough in commissions from his site to quit his day job and dedicate all his energies to ebay.com. A little over a year later AuctionWeb officially became eBay and a year after that the company went public.
Pierre Omidyar is now a billionaire, ebay.com is visited by millions of people every day, and misc.forsale.non-computer is another humble newsgroup which helped launch a great idea.
Pierre Omidyar created the code that would become eBay in the late summer of 1995, posting it to his consulting business' website Echo Bay Technology Group (ebay.com). A few days later, after experiencing very little initial traffic, Omidyar posted an announcement to misc.forsale.non-computer listing some items on auction, such as "Autographed Marky Mark Underwear" going for $400 and a "1952 Silver Dawn Rolls Royce" with a (then) current bid of $38,500.
Needless to say, the project took off and by AuctionWeb's first anniversary, Omidyar was earning enough in commissions from his site to quit his day job and dedicate all his energies to ebay.com. A little over a year later AuctionWeb officially became eBay and a year after that the company went public.
Pierre Omidyar is now a billionaire, ebay.com is visited by millions of people every day, and misc.forsale.non-computer is another humble newsgroup which helped launch a great idea.
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