A bit of EBay history

Published: September 5, 2007, 10:21 am

Tags: pierre omidyar, e bay, ebay, ebay store, ebay story, e bay story, ebay birth

EBay..Who doesn't knows what EBay is? Who hasn't visited this website at least one time since he learned about Internet surfing and websites? I'm sure that you know what EBay is about. You've probably even bought or sold something already, there.But how did EBay appeared? Who created this multi billion dollars website? If you want to know some EBay history, read on.EBay was born 12 years ago, in september 1995. It was the creation of a guy called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted that his website ( then called "AuctionWeb" ), to be a marketplace where people could sell and buy various items. He wrote the code for the site in one weekend. This site was the single one of its kind in the world at that time. The name of EBay comes from the domain name Omidyar was using for his site. The name of his company was Echo Bay, and EBay AuctionWeb was just a part of the company, which had the website called ebay.com.The first thing ever sold on the website was Omidyar's broken

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