But, you could buy a pizza

Amazon, the world in 1995, and things that are inevitable only in retrospect. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Darn, missed an anniversary. Not a wedding anniversary, the date for that one is tattooed on my brain.

Instead: the 25th anniversary of the launch of Amazon, which went live for the first time in July 1995.

For that entire first year, the company did only about $500,000 in revenue (all from selling books, of course). But its early revenue growth was ins…