What was the first thing you remember buying online?

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2. I actually think it was a calligraphy pen.

   I was a fourteen year old with high ambitions of elegance and beauty, but who really just admired the pen for years and never learned calligraphy.

3. My first digital camera in… 2009? I was 20 then, so I’m not sure it was my first online purchase ever, but it’s the first that I remember.

4. Pretty sure it was a bunch of books from Amazon (back when it was a bookstore).

5. The year was 2005, it was a cellphone

6. Books when Amazon was mostly a used book store.

7. Back when I was a teenager in 1998 and 56k dial-up internet was blazing fast, I used to buy bootleg anime on VHS from online “stores”… but online credit card processing wasn’t a thing yet and I didn’t have a credit card anyway. I’d email a list of the shows I wanted, fill a box with blank tapes, hide some cash or a Western Union money order in the bottom of the box to cover the copying fee, and ship it off to some random dude who had a VHS copying machine in his basement. A few weeks later, they’d mail the tapes back.

8. Music from CD-Wow. I couldn’t believe how cheap CDs were.

9. An Akatsuki cloak and headband, I still use both of them and I got them when I was about 10

10. Vibrator

11. A subscription to round and brown.com

12. Father Ted DVD boxset on Amazon on 5 December 2006