The influence that Amazon has created

Amazon has taken the world by storm, to say the least. Amazon was created on July 5, 1994, in Seattle, Washington and since its first release, it has changed drastically. At first, the websites primary use was to sell books now they are selling over millions and millions of different products ranging from phone cases to food. The website looked very disorganized and the navigation bar at the top of the website was very crowded by 2001.

In 2017 Amazon was the number #1 most viewed retail site on the internet reaching 197 million people. The second most view retail website was Walmart reaching almost 127 million people.

In the early 2000 Amazon was making 600 million dollars per quarter but that changed drastically once the website had an outage where they lost $120,000 every minute. Also in the early 2000s, they started to move away from only selling books to selling more products. This change forced them to move the very crowded, disorganized navigation bar to the side.

In 2007, Amazon changed their logo to the one that we see today in commercials, mail packages, online ads, and magazines.

The CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is the richest man alive worth 146.6 Billion Dollars. Day after day Amazon is growing bigger and bigger and more powerful. They started as a small company that no one knew about and today when someone says Amazon that's the first thing that comes to our minds.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-amazon-looked-like-when-it-launched-2015-3#this-snapshot-from-2006-highlights-a-very-important-time-in-history-when-razr-phones-were-super-popular-15 


https://www.statista.com/statistics/271450/monthly-unique-visitors-to-us-retail-websites/


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