In 1995, at the age of 28, Pierre Omidyar began to write the original computer code for an online web site to enable the listing of a direct person-to-person auctions for collectible items. He created a simple prototype on his personal web page, and on Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 1995, he launched an online service called Auction Web, which would eventually become the auction site eBay
Believe it or not, the first item sold was a broken laser pointer. Among the other things housed at the nascent eBay URL was a page on the Ebola virus, a personal interest of Pierre Omidyar.
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