Try to include a screenshot showing the item(s) and date from your Amazon order history. Here is my first ever order:

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The Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The email account in which my receipt was stored is long gone...... Sorry!

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The email account in which my receipt was stored is long gone...... Sorry!

It would actually be in your Amazon order history.

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My current account only has a history going back to 2012
I don't see any way to search by a name or address I would have used in the past and I sure as heck don't remember any passwords attributed to my old apple mail addresses or amazon accounts that are long gone.

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January 15, 1998.



Amazon saves everything. just go into Your Orders and select the first year available. of course, this assumes you've always used the same account - which i have.



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I guess back then (late '90s) Amazon was exclusively books, right? Does anybody remember?

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Amazon saves everything. just go into Your Orders and select the first year available. of course, this assumes you've always used the same account - which i have.

Yeah - that's the problem here. My 'first' Amazon account was shared with a partner, and that email/account have long been inaccessible to me... Current account has nothing older than 2002.

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Beat you by a couple months

A brilliant film, and very Gilliam.. given as a gift.

Mine is so old, it's blurry! $100. on books! I really was (and still am) into MAD.

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my first order was 2001. i was slow.

...i was also a student without much money

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May 13, 1997: "Barron's How to Prepare for the Stockbroker Exam : Series 7"

I still remember when it arrived.

It was not a very good book, although I did pass the exam the following year.

2002 Sony Clie $359.99 Still available used

Around 1997. It was something for work. It was really a big deal in our group: wow, something ordered from amazon.com!

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In 2001 & 2002, only gift cards.
Then nothing for a few years.

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March 6, 2000:

So did you all get the free commuter mug in 1998? Man, I loved that thing.

Genesis Archive: 1967-1975 [BOX SET]
Genesis
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC
$48.98
Ordered on July 26, 1998

Ha, I still have some of it on my iPhone

December 5, 1998... The Filemaker 4 Bible.
Pretty sure I had another account that I lost access to that I ordered from the previous year, but i'm also pretty sure I only ordered one or two books prior to the Filemaker Bible.

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Prior to Prime, I pooled a big order into one shipment. This was only part of it. There were a couple more books and dvds. It was from December of 1999, and our first child wasn't born until a few months later, so I must've been stocking up:

Amazon started a bit later over here.


Paul

I had a work account for a few years before opening my own and would (with the OK of the owner of the company) order personal stuff through that with my own credit card. The work account login info is long gone but I'm sure my first personal purchases were CDs and books.

My first order on my own account was a decoupage book on March 16, 2000.

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I guess back then (late '90s) Amazon was exclusively books, right? Does anybody remember?

Yeah, I remember that. People were wondering just how Amazon was going to compete with those like Powell's that had been in the book business for a long time. Remember when Jeff Bezos was called Jeff Bozo? I still think that Amazon is a Ponzi scheme.

Anyhow, my first purchase from them was in 2003, and it was a book. I didn't buy anything from them in 2004. In 2005, one order, and it was a used CD. 2006, two orders. 2007, one order. 2008, two orders. It was not until 2009 that I actually started buying from them more frequently.

In the past couple of years, I've been buying a lot less from them since I can usually find better prices elsewhere. This has a lot to do with sales tax - now that Amazon generally charges for this, paying a higher price for something from someone else without the sales tax often ends up being cheaper. This is often true even if I have to pay shipping. Another problem I have with Amazon is that their search engine has to be about the worst one there ever was. It's far easier to buy from a site that specializes in certain types of merchandise with an easy to use hierarchal setup.

Jensen Q2049J 20" Flat Screen TV on Mar 9, 2003 for $179.99. Guess I was a latecomer to Amazon.

ORDER PLACED
December 5, 1997
TOTAL
$18.35

The Birder's Handbook : A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds;Including All Species That Regularly Breed North of Mexico
Paul Ehrlich, et al
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC

Pretty much only books and DVDs until...

ORDER PLACED
July 31, 2002
TOTAL
$129.00
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC

I must have changed my account at some point, because my oldest order is in 2008 and I know I was ordering from Amazon prior to 2008

November 3, 1998. Bought a couple of books.

1 order in 1999. Matchbox gift set, fire & rescue vehicles for my three year old son. He is now a college freshman. Yikes!

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I found out Amazon did electronic banking when I was in a recovery facility most of 2011. First order was guitar strings and a Sony 8gb mp3 player. That was a lifesaver when laid up 20 miles from home.

My first order on the account I am still using now was in 2003:

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ORDER PLACED
February 28, 1999
TOTAL
$113.85

2 of Adobe Premiere 5.0 Classroom in a Book
Adobe Development Team
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC


Adobe After Effects 3.1 : Classroom in a Book
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Not my first order, which was in 1999, but I didn't order much from amazon so I signed up for a new account in 2001.

Ordered on September 7, 2001 Order# 102-0825662-5137769
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Linksys BEFSR41 Etherfast 4-Port Cable/DSL Router
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC
$99.95

Payment Method
Visa **** 1691
Order Summary
Item(s) Subtotal: $99.95
Shipping & Handling: $6.39
Promotion applied: -$15.00
Total before tax: $91.34
Estimated tax to be collected: $0.00
Grand Total: $91.34

My second order on this account, was a CD that my ex-GF accused me of taking when I moved out, ordered to replace the missing copy.