What was the first thing you bought online?

[Super Hans 10]

I was watching a documentary the other day about CityLink, a lot of the warehouse employees had never bought anything online which got me thinking because I can't actually remember my first online purchase.

 

What was the first thing you ever bought online?

[Vaati 11]

I would think it was some anime-related stuff off Ebay.

[LeMaquis 10]

A vinyl copy of Lick My Decals Off, Baby by Captain Beefheart in about 2000. I paid £40 and a few months later saw it in a shop for £17.

[medusa 16]

My eBay account is 15 years old, and I was in a major rock buying phase back then. Certainly amongst the first things I bought was an Orthoceras mortality slab, but it could have been any of a few hundred lumps of rock, geodes, fossils or gemstones.

[cuttsie 1,091]

A computer it used to take it twenty minutes to warm up.

[Happ Hazzard 10]

I'm fairly sure it was the Smiths The Queen is Dead album on CD from Amazon, in 1998 IIRC.

[Ghosthunter 10]

Quake 2 for the Playstation 1.

[Minimo 59]

Probably books, I have bought a few from amazon over the years. Still prefer browsing in Waterstones though.

[Guest]

It must have been a book. My Amazon account tells me my first order, in 1999, was a copy of Using Word 2000. Exciting stuff.

[alternageek 10]

Probably a CD from CD world.. used to get lots of stuff from them before they went bust in 2003.

My Amazon and eBay accounts dont go back to the start,

[medusa 16]

My Amazon account only goes back to 2003, when I apparently used it to send presents to various children in the family for their birthdays. I was a very early adopter with eBay though, back in the days when browsing took hours on a dial up modem and payments had to be sent by putting a cheque in the post and then waiting for it to clear before your item was sent.

[xdbx 10]

Dark Side Of The Moon ultra disc from Ebay around September 1999.