Part 1: From PC World, January 2003 issue
"Conventional wisdom has it that Pierre Omidyar, founder of the Web's pre-eminent auction site, named his creation after the San Francisco Bay Area. And you probably assumed that the E stands for electronic, as it does in the name of Omidyar's previous company, EShop. Guess again. In fact, back in 1995 the
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