The Digital Dark Age: Tracking Down the StoreRunner “Ultimate Shopper” It is a strange paradox of the modern internet that the machine designed to remember everything has such a selective memory. I recently went down a rabbit hole trying to pin down the exact date of a pivotal moment in my early digital life: winning…… Continue reading The $15,000 Ghost of the Dot-Com Boom, The Digital Dark Age: Tracking Down the StoreRunner “Ultimate Shopper”
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What is your earliest eCommerce memory?
It’s about time for me to retire the t-shirt pictured here; but there’s an exciting eCommerce story behind it. In 1999 the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dale Sundby, backed by CBS launched a site called StoreRunner.com. It was one of a handful of sites that brought together multiple retailers with a focus on local inventory categorized…… Continue reading What is your earliest eCommerce memory?