Do You Remember These Best-Selling Amazon Titles From 1995?

by A Design Blogger

  1. The year conjures up memories of extraterrestrial life, national discord, and emerging technology. As the prospect of the Internet became increasingly foreseeable, the need to curb the nation�s confusion was suddenly vital.

Many moons ago, the powerhouse ecommerce site that is Amazon was solely an online bookstore. A timeline chart of Amazon�s best selling books has recently surfaced, and it�s nothing short of jarring. The list kicks off with Lincoln D. Stein�s How to Set Up and Maintain a World Wide Web Site: The Guide For Information Providers. Considering how substantially the Internet has evolved, it would come as no surprise if that book now serves as a computer stand for some.

The list then graduates to David Siegel�s Creating Killer Web Sites: The Art of Third-Generation Site Design. With Internet-related books serving as the best sellers for two years in a row, there�s no disputing that the World Wide Web was growing by leaps and bounds. Come 1997, bookworms reverted back to their fiction roots. It was in 2000 that the beloved Harry Potter empire began to hit best seller charts.

Cut to six years later and you�ll find that Jim Collins� Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don�t proudly held the title of the 2006 best seller. It was merely a decade ago when the intricacies of site design were being explored, and now tycoons were looking to harness that invention to leverage their success.

In 2007 Harry Potter made his inevitable resurgence, followed by Eckhart Tolle�s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life�s Purpose. It�s four years later, the Internet is no longer a growing fad but a way of life, and Artificial Intelligence is now among us. It was in 2011 that Walter Isaacson�s biography of Steve Jobs struck a chord with the masses.

As of last year the best selling book on Amazon was Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. Nearly two decades ago we were exploring the splendors of the Internet, and now, in an effort to remedy the unpleasantness of universal strife, we cling to powerful anecdotes.