Two billionaires react to tweet on first-ever Amazon order in 1995. It was a book on…

Billionaire Jeff Bezos recently reacted to a post that reminded the world that Amazon’s first-ever sale in 1995 was a book on artificial intelligence and the irony isn’t lost on anyone. At a time when the internet was a novelty, a customer purchased Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter. It’s a collection of essays on AI from the 90s.

It started with a tweet by Jon Erlichman, who posted on March 3, “On this day in 1995: the first item was purchased on Amazon.