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Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:43 Ben Gilbert It's basically a rendering engine called Obidos, which if anybody knows their South American geography.
- ▶ 1:15:53 Ben Gilbert And for people who remember browsing Amazon in the early days, you'd go to like amazon.com slash exec slash Obidos slash something, something, something.
- ▶ 1:16:05 Ben Gilbert And so what Obidos did was it could append IDs to the URL and pass them through so that the back end, as we know it in today's parlance, so that the server could match up, oh, this customer just added this other thing to their cart, and so…
- ▶ 1:16:49 Ben Gilbert