Prime real estate: Original Amazon House up for sale

LOS ANGELES, United States  —The house where Jeff Bezos founded online shopping mammoth Amazon is up for sale, offering one lucky buyer the chance to own a piece of internet history.

Bezos and his then-wife MacKenzie Scott were renting the single-story, three-bedroom home near Seattle in the mid 1990s when they began selling books online from the garage.

Amazon lore holds that the garage was outfitted only with a computer, basic office supplies and a desk constructed from a door bought from a home improvement center.

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Originally the company shipped only books — Amazon says the first one was titled “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought.”

But within a few short years it became the default choice for online shoppers all over the world, pushing its current market capitalization to a staggering $1.6 trillion.

The 1,540-square-foot (143-square-meter) home, which has an asking price of just under $2.3 million, was “meticulously rebuilt” in 2001, according to the agent’s listing, so not much remains of the Bezos era.

But, photos show, the garage has a recreation of the original “amazon.com” banner that Bezos had back in the day.