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Yes, you read that correctly: ten years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site - then called ´AuctionWeb´ - to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The name ´eBay´ comes from the domain Omidyar used for his site. His company´s name was Echo Bay, and the ´eBay AuctionWeb´ was originally just one part of Echo Bay´s website at ebay.com. The first thing ever sold on the site was Omidyar´s broken laser pointer, which he got $14 for.