"Y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software),
and high-speed pizza delivery."
—Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
Pizza Hut’s First Website
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#22Didn't know they had Google Analytics back then.
Good tip to check the console.
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#23Requests too much PII! Run away!
internet was a safe place!
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#24What was the actual date on this? I assume it was wayyyy before 2014 haha. Imagine telling them back then that someone could fill out all the details on the website, choose their pizza and customise toppings AND have it delivered by a robot. They'd think you were high!
If you actually pulled that off, you could be the lucky recipient of a $375 million investment from SoftBank!
https://www.google.com/search?q=softbank+zume+pizza
(Full disclosure: I tried the pizza. It was... not very good. Amici's next time!)
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#25"Y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), and high-speed pizza delivery." —Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
"2020 was the year that would decide between two pizza deliveries techniques. Amazon-Google drone-based delivery or the MIT's supersonic pizza railgun"
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#26In a way, I miss the naive old web. Now you get popups, requests to have your location, prompts to sign in before you can get deals, etc. In many ways a simple web form asking for pizza is a better user experience.
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#27Who is The Santa Cruz Operation®?
SCO is synonymous with evil old school unix. A lot of mainframes ran it, and my first job was dealing with some old SCO/ATT bastardized system. Interestingly enough, I never bothered to know what SCO stood for until now.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Canada, it redirects to pizzahut.ca
With a bad cert, no less...
The bad cert is for https://pizzahut.ca/ but https://www.pizzahut.ca/ is fine.
The cert loaded on pizzahut.ca is for shortener.secureserver.net. The cert for www.pizzahut.ca is good for *.pizzahut.ca, but they're just not loading it for pizzahut.ca. :/
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#29This is not strictly Pizza Hut's first website. Pizza Hut's first website was built in 1994 [1]. This webpage has Javascript (1995) [2] running Google Tag Manager (2012) [3]. The article about Pizza Hut's first website [1] provides more context than just the webpage. [1]: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/pizzanet/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
Amusingly, the date on this article and the fact it still loads today.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-25-fi-31168-...
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#30And ten years later they were innovating online again with "slash-pizza": https://money.cnn.com/2005/02/17/commentary/game_over/column...