These two examples of “firsts” were selected from many innovative and inventive projects I’ve developed during my years as a high-tech developer and designer.
I didn’t realize I’d most likely come up with the “first shopping cart” design when I pixel-hacked the icon using “Deluxe Paint.” At the time all “interactive design” was distributed on floppy disks in the mail that stored 1.44 MB of files. The shopping cart was just another “metaphor” for a collection of selected products for purchase.
audiohighway.com was founded by Nathan Schulhof who imagined audio being downloaded to a device in 1994. In June of 1996 I joined audiohighway.com and designed the Internet distribution system for downloading audio to the Listen Up Player. We actually succeeded in producing a working prototype of the system by October, 1997.
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Here it is. The first actual interactive shopping cart I know of. Created in February, 1993 for the TestDrive “Try Before You Buy” CD. The screen on the right was part of an interactive demonstration that promoted the TestDrive CD Rom. I founded, designed and developed this first, interactive software catalog which was sold a year later to R.R. Donnelly & Sons.
 See the first shopping cart
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This is the first Web site that provided downloadable licensed audio that played on the Listen Up Player. What you’re looking at is the first “iPod” system, complete with a early precursor to “iTunes” which we branded as “AudioWiz.”
I was recruited by Nathan Schulhof, the founder, CEO, to design, architect and develop audiohighway.com into an enterprise-class Web site which we eventually accomplished in November, 1998. audiohighway.com went public on NASDAQ in December, 1997.
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