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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Introducing eBay
Description: In today’s episode Arion, Rebecca and Olly look into the founding of the massive multinational e-commerce company eBay.On the day it went live it was named AuctionWeb, and was just one project among many being built by its creator, Pierre Omidyar. In fact, a significant part of the site was dedicated to information about Ebola, which happened to be a pet interest of Omidyar.In this episode, The Retrospectors put to bed the myth that eBay was short for “EbolaBay”; list all the things that you cannot sell o...