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I could have sworn there was a "Nile Bookstore" back in the early days of .NET (2002 - 2004).

What if I told you there was a major online bookstore circa 2002 that was also named after a humongous river[1]?

That was the joke -- that and they are in the same city and some of the engineers at MSFT have beers with the AMZN engineers.

Of course! I totally got the joke right away! Might I say, I'm totally in the Nile!

That would be about the time this store started.