{"id":4676,"date":"2013-09-03T23:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T23:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ebay-founded\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T23:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T23:16:05","slug":"ebay-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ebay-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay Founded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2079\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<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\/2013\/09\/16767__800px-EBay_Logo.svg_-300x124.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" \/>September 3, 1995<\/p>\n<p>The online auction site, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEBay\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a>, is launched as \u201cAuctionWeb\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPierre_Omidyar\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Omidyar<\/a>. The first item sold, a broken laser pointer, wasn\u2019t 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\u201dI\u2019m a collector of broken laser pointers.\u201d From that first $  14.83, Omidyar is now worth billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F09%2F02%2Ffirst-search-engine%2F\" rel=\"prev\">First Search Engine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/16767__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/09\/03\/ebay-founded\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 3, 1995 The online auction site, eBay, is launched as \u201cAuctionWeb\u201d by Pierre Omidyar. The first item sold, a broken laser pointer, wasn\u2019t 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":2,"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-4676","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\/4676"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}