True Fact: eBay Started as a Site About Ebola

The outbreak of the Ebola virus has quickly come to dominate news headlines, to the point that new publications such as Ebola Deeply have launched solely to cover the growing epidemic. In 1995, though, Ebola was a far more esoteric topicâ??one that interested the entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar enough to create a website about it called Ebola Information that lived, curiously, at eBay.com.