the.com/amazon
started selling books, ended up owning the internet's plumbing and your weekends.
means A massive American e-commerce and cloud-computing company (also the name of the world's largest river and the surrounding rainforest, and in myth a race of warrior women).
from From the Greek Amazones, the legendary nation of warrior women said to dwell at the edges of the known world; the ancients themselves guessed the name meant "without breast" (a-mazos), spinning a tale that the women removed one to draw a bow better — but this is almost certainly folk etymology, a clever story laid over a name that's likely non-Greek and of uncertain, possibly Iranian, origin. Spanish explorers later slapped the name on the great South American river after reportedly clashing with fierce female fighters along its banks, and centuries on a Seattle bookseller chose it to suggest something vast and exotic.
- first sale
- a science textbook, shipped July 1995
- hidden empire
- AWS quietly powers Netflix and much of the web
- name origin
- chosen so it began with 'A' alphabetically
- river rival
- named after Earth's largest river by volume
- smile arrow
- logo points from A to Z deliberately
amazon river — world's largest river by discharge, flows through 6 countries in south america
amazon rainforest — 5.5 million square kilometers of tropical forest spanning 9 countries, 10% of earth's species
amazon company — e-commerce and cloud services corporation founded by jeff bezos in 1994, $2+ trillion market cap