General Magic - Piaar's a Computer Engineer

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In his free time piaar starts tinkering around on the early internet and Starts a collection of internet services that he calls ebay for electronic bay area Although there would be lots of retro Spective justifications of that name. One of the five or so main things you could do on the site Was do this thing called auction web Which Surprise surprise became the thing that became ebay So we're telling all this history because hey, it's awesome to tell ebay history,. especially having done the amazon earlier this season but kind of painting the picture here of like piaars this like Engineer, this is a side project. You know, it's really unclear what’s going

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