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Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by lucasverra »

smacktoward wrote: post #34
segfaultbuserr wrote: post #8

I got a 403 forbidden message, but archive.org works. * https://web.archive.org/web/20140123215657/https://www.pizza... > PizzaNet is Pizza Hut's Electronic Storefront and is brought to you by Pizza Hut® and The Santa Cruz Operation® What, the original SCO, THE Unix company, built the website for Pizza Hut? The original SCO dissolved in 2001, so it must be earlier?

The Web was a huge driver of Unix adoption. Before the Web came along, Unix was on the ropes. The conventional wisdom was that Windows NT would eventually finish it off, owning the server space the way regular Windows owned the desktop. But all the early tools for standing up a Web site were Unix-centric, simply because the Web's roots were in science and academia rather than traditional corporate computing. So when…

I would have bet for Windows NT (Network) but it was (« New technology »)

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Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by stockkid »

axaxs wrote: post #26

In 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.

I had a similar thought when I landed on the site. On the other hand, some features/trends of modern websites could improve some aspects of our user experience. For instance, automatically getting my location could be sometimes useful. Makes me think where the optimal middle ground is.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by genidoi »

axaxs wrote: post #26

In 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.

Imo, whatever annoying tradeoffs a commercialized web brought with it, it was wholly worth it for giving literally anybody the ability to learn anything they are curious about.

1080p Harvard compsci lectures[0] available for free would have been a pipe dream in 1995.

[0] https://youtu.be/e9Eds2Rc_x8

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by darepublic »

Looking at this old site, I see the future of the web. This navbar + hero + a bunch of marketing fluff that nobody reads.. it's grandma/grandpa shit. It's like those walmart photograph frames with teddy bears on them. It seems cool now, you can make six figures making this shit, but it's ridiculous.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by aflag »

xs83 wrote: post #11

What 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!

You could already select the toppings. Drone technology was not prevalent back then, but no one would think you were high. They were living the dot-com bubble. They would probably invest in that idea if anyone pitched it the right way.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by mchaver »

Let's collect all the internet's historical pizza moments. I've collected a few from the comments here and added a few.

- 1990, Don Hopkins uses the PizzaTool to fax a pizza order.

- 1992, Snow Crash is published. Readers imagine interconnected virtual worlds and action packed pizza delivery. Often quoted book in regards to internet, MMORPGs and pizza.

- 1994, Pizza Hut's Pizza Net allows users in Santa Cruz to order pizza.

- May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz buys two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins (valued at around 30 USD at the time).

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by kalleboo »

caf wrote: post #9
segfaultbuserr wrote: post #8

I got a 403 forbidden message, but archive.org works. * https://web.archive.org/web/20140123215657/https://www.pizza... > PizzaNet is Pizza Hut's Electronic Storefront and is brought to you by Pizza Hut® and The Santa Cruz Operation® What, the original SCO, THE Unix company, built the website for Pizza Hut? The original SCO dissolved in 2001, so it must be earlier?

archive.org has that main page archived as far back as December 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzah...

There's a gorgeous HTML comment in there, referring to a 1994 creation date

    ****************************************************************************
    *                                                                          *
    *                            PIZZA HUT INC.                                *
    *                                                                          *
    *       PHI proprietary information: the enclosed materials contain        *
    *       proprietary information of Pizza Hut Inc. and shall                *
    *       not be disclosed in whole or in any part to any third party        *
    *       or used by any person for any purpose, without written consent     *
    *       of PHI. Duplication of any portion of these materials shall        *
    *       include this legend.                                               *
    *                                                                          *
    ****************************************************************************
    **
    ** HTML index.html
    **
    ** DESCRIPTION Home Page.
    **
    ** REVISIONS
    ** Date  Who  Comments
    ** ----  ---  --------
    ** 08/18/94 SCO  created.
    **
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