Somewhere in late 1997, early 1998 (as I recall) I was working at a place called 800.com. Me and three guys (Joe Tillotson, Javan Smith and Patrick Cauldwell) from our consulting firm were helping create the storefront, shopping cart and business systems. We did it all in COM and Classic ASP. I did most of the friend end ASP, HTML, cut graphics, did scale, browser compat, the whole thing. Javan ended up working there full time for some years as I recall. It was deep in the beginning of the first boom. We were sleeping with our servers. The place had no offices yet, and we were sitting on the stairs of the Tyee Group in Portland. March 1, 2002 800.com sold to Circuit City and disappeared . I still say they could have been like Amazon, but it...(read more) ...
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