What's the very earliest order in your Amazon history?
I'll go first.
There was a reason for this - Amazon's search engine at the time was very primitive, it didn't do stopwords, and one of its key metric was how many clicks something got in search results. So this book started to go viral, and people searched for it and clicked on it and that made it more likely to appear in more search results.
By the time I heard about it, any sufficiently vague query that contained the word "in" would suggest this to you. I got an email suggesting I search Amazon for "Pointers in C", and this book was the second result. So naturally I bought it.
@bencurthoys 17th Dec 2000. Kate Bush This Woman's Work box set. Apparently the return window for this order closed on Dec 26th 2000, at which point I was still playing it on repeat.
@bencurthoys Mine’s not as exciting but I went for broke and ordered a lot of books in one go.
@bencurthoys October 2000 - a big beat CD courtesy of Bentley Rhythm Ace and a book on web design!