Web dev 'bought' so many books it crashed major online store
go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/who_meJim, a reader, recounts a time in the early 1990s when he worked for an online bookstore. While testing the new platform, Jim forgot to disable a site crawler’s ability to add items to the shopping cart, resulting in a cart worth over $50,000. This caused a major disruption for the bookstore, but Jim was able to fix the issue and keep his job.