We dug into the CNET archives to bring you this interview with Amazon's Jeff Bezos from 1997. Check out the amazing simplicity of the website and warehouse back then. Note that this footage is from a "field tape" that was used to produce the final video for CNET. It's edited only for length and is a bit rough, but that's exactly how we like it when you're viewing an e-commerce juggernaut in its embryonic stage.

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