LOS ANGELES: 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.

Amazon lore holds that the garage was outfitted only with a computer, basic office supplies and a desk constructed from a door bought from a home improvement centre.

Originally the company shipped only books - Amazon says the first one was titled Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought.

But within a few short years it became the default choice for online shoppers all over the world, pushing its current market capitalisation to a staggering US$1.6 trillion .

The 1,540-square-foot (143-square-metre) home, which has an asking price of just under US$2.3mil , was "meticulously rebuilt" in 2001, according to the agent's listing, so not much remains of the Bezos era.

But, photos show, the garage has a recreation of the original "amazon.com" banner that Bezos had back in the day.

 - AFP