Cloud Computing: Amazon as an adult – Two decades of online shopping
July 6, 2015
Grazed from SeattleTimes. Author: Rachel Lerman.
It has officially been nearly two decades since shoppers of the world were introduced to the idea of buying books online. Seattle-based Amazon.com’s e-commerce website turns 20 years old this month. The company has grown from an idea hatched by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to use the burgeoning Internet to revolutionize the book-selling business into an international “Everything Store” that has undeniably changed the way the world shops.
The company seems to be on a never-ending growth trajectory — Amazon employs more than 165,000 workers worldwide and last year brought in nearly $89 billion in revenue . Amazon celebrated its 20th anniversary of incorporation a year ago, in July 2014, and now, on July 16 of this year, it’s marking the two decade-point of its website launch and first book sold…
That book was no light read — “Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought,” by Douglas Hofstadter…
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