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Prime Real Estate: Original Amazon House Up For Sale

Amazon distribution centres now are huge, but it all started in the garage of a single-storey home near Seattle (Credit: AFP)

The house where Jeff Bezos founded online shopping mammoth Amazon is up for sale, offering one lucky buyer the chance to own a piece of internet history.

Bezos and his then-wife MacKenzie Scott were renting the single-story, three-bedroom home near Seattle in the mid 1990s when they began selling books online from the garage.

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