{"id":14683,"date":"2018-09-03T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ebay-founded-3\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T23:16:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:16:23","slug":"ebay-founded-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ebay-founded-3\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay Founded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2080\" title=\"eBay Logo\" alt=\"eBay Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/e6873__800px-EBay_Logo.svg_-300x124.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/e6873__800px-EBay_Logo.svg_-300x124.png 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/800px-EBay_Logo.svg_.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>September 3, 1995<\/p>\n<p>The online auction site, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EBay\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a>, is launched as &#8220;AuctionWeb&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Omidyar\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Omidyar<\/a>. The first item sold, a broken laser pointer, wasn&#8217;t actually intended to sell, but rather to test the new site, itself started as a hobby. Surprised that the item sold for $  14.83,\u00a0Omidyar contacted the buyer to make sure he knew the laser pointer was broken, to which was replied,\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m a collector of broken laser pointers.&#8221; From that first $  14.83, Omidyar is now worth billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/09\/03\/ebay-founded\/\">eBay Founded<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/09\/03\/ebay-founded\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 3, 1995 The online auction site, eBay, is launched as &#8220;AuctionWeb&#8221; by Pierre Omidyar. The first item sold, a broken laser pointer, wasn&#8217;t actually intended to sell, but rather to test the new site, itself started as a hobby. Surprised that the item sold for $ 14.83,\u00a0Omidyar contacted the buyer to make sure he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1299,1877],"class_list":["post-14683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-ebay","tag-founded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}