{"id":1001337,"date":"2026-04-04T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001337"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:40:49","slug":"two-billionaires-react-to-tweet-on-first-ever-amazon-order-in-1995-it-was-a-book-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/two-billionaires-react-to-tweet-on-first-ever-amazon-order-in-1995-it-was-a-book-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Two billionaires react to tweet on first-ever Amazon order in 1995. It was a book on\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Jeff Bezos recently reacted to a post that reminded the world that Amazon\u2019s first-ever sale in 1995 was a book on artificial intelligence and the irony isn&#8217;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\u2019s a collection of essays on AI from the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>It started with a tweet by Jon Erlichman, who posted on March 3, \u201cOn this day in 1995: the first item was purchased on Amazon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Jeff Bezos recently reacted to a post that reminded the world that Amazon\u2019s first-ever sale in 1995 was a book on artificial intelligence and the irony isn&#8217;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\u2019s a collection of essays on AI from the 90s. It started with a tweet by Jon Erlichman, who posted on March 3, \u201cOn this day in 1995: the first item was purchased on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}