India, April 4 -- Billionaire Jeff Bezos recently reacted to a post that reminded the world that Amazon's first-ever sale in 1995 was a book on artificial intelligence and the irony isn't lost on anyone. At a time when the internet was a novelty, a customer purchased Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter. It's a collection of essays on AI from the 90s.

It started with a tweet by Jon Erlichman, who posted on March 3, "On this day in 1995: the first item was purchased on Amazon. It was a book on artificial intelligence." He shared a picture of the book and an invoice addressed to John Wainwright.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, reshared the tweet and responded ...