In the old days, buyers and sellers were limited to newspapers, garage sales, and flea markets in the area ---- ------- they lived. But in the early 1990s, - ------- people started to use the Internet, Pierre Omidyar had an idea. Omidyar, no longer had to be limited to finding buyers ------------------ lived in their local area. He came up with the idea of eBay. -----------.---- he started as a hobby. He didn't charge money at first because he wasn't sure eBay would work. Buying online requires you to trust sellers ---------- you've never met. But people liked eBay. .--....-- was working as a computer programmer, realized that sellers