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- Front Page Story from the Alamogordo Daily News for November 15, 2014, "Atari Games Net $37K on eBay" - In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. The story became an obscure pop culture legend -- until "The Atari Tomb" was unearthed in 2014. This document captures the history of the world's first video game excavation.
- November 15, 2014
- Collections - Artifact
Front Page Story from the Alamogordo Daily News for November 15, 2014, "Atari Games Net $37K on eBay"
In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. The story became an obscure pop culture legend -- until "The Atari Tomb" was unearthed in 2014. This document captures the history of the world's first video game excavation.
- Oral History Interview with Pierre Omidyar, March, 2008--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 21 - Pierre Omidyar launched "Auction Web," later known to the world as eBay, in 1995. The site connected a buyer and seller together over a shared economic interest. Coupled with a simple concept--a feedback forum that provided an area for community comments both positive and negative-- eBay helped Omidyar establish "reputation economics" as a way for individuals to do business on the web.
- March 25, 2008
- Collections - Artifact
Oral History Interview with Pierre Omidyar, March, 2008--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 21
Pierre Omidyar launched "Auction Web," later known to the world as eBay, in 1995. The site connected a buyer and seller together over a shared economic interest. Coupled with a simple concept--a feedback forum that provided an area for community comments both positive and negative-- eBay helped Omidyar establish "reputation economics" as a way for individuals to do business on the web.