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As someone who lived through the ‘90s it’s striking how eBay never comes up in discussions of the internet, maybe a reference when talking about PayPal or Amazon or Alibaba

I just bought something through eBay yesterday! they keep desperately offering me vouchers to come back

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There is some “ontology recapitulates phylogeny” stuff in how the internet’s first e-commerce bazaar was built to sell distinct singular ones of things

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