My first Amazon order

Order Date: April 22, 1999 Items: 2 of: Chester & Lester/Guitar Monsters

I can't for the life of me remember why I bought 2... but I know this was a Christmas gift for someone.

What's also interesting is that this purchase was so long ago, my "dotMac" address was still free then.

Order Date: August 17, 1999 Items: - Web Style Guide : Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites - Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites - MySQL and mSQL (Nutshell Series)

Nick, on my 4th Amazon order (March 8, 2000 ), I bought Cluetrain Manifesto

Mine was in July '04 and it was a subscription to WIRED.

PRIME_MEMBER_4_LYF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Order Date: January 24, 2001

Items: * Pokemon Electronic Figure: Togepi * Energizer E90BP-2 N Batteries (2-Pack) * Pokemon Plush: Psyduck #54 * Neon Genesis Evangelion - Collection 0:2 * Bucket Boss Brand 06009 Jumper Cable and Extension Cord Bag

followed shortly therafter by:

Order Date: March 16, 2001

Items: * Monopoly Pokemon Edition * Tea from an Empty Cup * Hello Kitty: Kitty and the Beast/Hello Kitty: Wizard of Paws

The Xbox that died twice.

My order was on March 3, 2000, making you a week cooler than me.

Items: * Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson * The Hedgehog and the Fox : An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, by Isaiah Berlin * Cocktail : The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century, by Paul Harrington, Laura Moorhead

See my post for excruciating detail.

Here's mine...probably the best of all :)

Shipped on April 10, 2001 Beavis and Butt-Head - Troubled Youth [VHS Tape] Beavis and Butt-Head - Chicks N' Stuff [VHS Tape]

Dave will pee his pants laughing at this, remembering when:

Order Date: January 15, 1998 Order #: 9889-1595114-354964 Recipient: Nils Menten View order Items:

* 1 of: Unix for Dummies (For Dummies) Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC * 1 of: Building a Unix Internet Server/Book and Cd Rom Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

Right around this time my buddy Toby loaned me an SGI Indy so we could thrash around and learn UNIX, get our web hosting stable. I bought these books in order to get a clue, try and get it started. I didn't get very far, I'm ashamed to admit.

8 months after I bought these books, Dave joined the company and within a year we determined to transition to UNIX servers, as the Macs we were running were crashing constantly, setting off our pagers (remember those?), causing us and our clients all manner of grief.

We bought a Dell Poweredge server (leased it actually), drove down to CT and my buddy Walt shepherded us through installing FreeBSD. We turned around that night, drove back home, went to bed. The next day Dave set into setting it up, pulled an all-nighter, nuked and rebuilt the server twice as I recall.

I remember coming into the office in the morning and there was 22-year-old Dave, bleary eyed and grinning, and there was one of our sites up on a monitor on a workstation next to the server.

Me: "Did you go home last night?"

Dave: "Nope"

Me: "Is that website there running off of the new server?"

Dave: "Yup. And so is this, and this, and this..."

Me: "You're unbelievable" (not the last time I said that)

We let it run for a day or two just to convince ourselves it wasn't going to blow up or something, and then re-pointed the DNS to the new server and held our breath. That server at one point had something approaching two years of continuous uptime.

Dave dove into PHP and MySQL shortly thereafter (see *his* first Amazon order) and we reprogrammed the sites that were still running on the Macs as quickly as we could and never looked back.

Crap, I actually get misty-eyed remembering this stuff.