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Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by codeulike »

tgtweak wrote: post #29
p0cc wrote: post #20

This 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-...

It's interesting that the article suggests that making a phone call would be preferable to ordering online. There's been quite a culture change since then; I'll do anything to avoid having to make a phone call.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by everyone »

codeulike wrote: post #61
tgtweak wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-...

It's interesting that the article suggests that making a phone call would be preferable to ordering online. There's been quite a culture change since then; I'll do anything to avoid having to make a phone call.

Preferences aside, a phone call is much more practical.

Via web..

* Ordering could easily fuck up somehow. Eg. Send multiple identical pizzas cus you pressed the button multiple times, cus the 1st time u pressed it nothing happened. I read about this actually happening recently.

* You dont get confirmation from a human.

* You cant ask questions and get answers from a human.

* You could only order what the app allows and nothing else.

* You'll probably need to register / login, forget your password, reset it, etc. etc. It will take a lot longer.

The big problem with customer service nowadays is thats it's impossible to get hold of a human you can tell your problem to, and who will hopefully deal with it (eg. google)

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by codeulike »

everyone wrote: post #62
codeulike wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting that the article suggests that making a phone call would be preferable to ordering online. There's been quite a culture change since then; I'll do anything to avoid having to make a phone call.

Preferences aside, a phone call is much more practical. Via web.. * Ordering could easily fuck up somehow. Eg. Send multiple identical pizzas cus you pressed the button multiple times, cus the 1st time u pressed it nothing happened. I read about this actually happening recently. * You dont get confirmation from a human. * You cant ask questions and get answers from a human. * You could only order what the app allows…

Otoh spelling out my name and address and phone number and card details over the phone and making sure there's no mistakes takes minutes whereas I can type it all in and make sure it's correct in 30 seconds

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by yk »

Iv wrote: post #25
bobbygoodlatte wrote: post #21

"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"

An hypersonic railgun could cook the pizza using air friction. Also, it would be faster.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by pjc50 »

kalleboo wrote: post #50
caf wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"Shall not be disclosed to anyone" on a public facing web page. It took a long time to train people out of that one. Remember email signature disclaimers? Still some of those around.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by UserIsUnused »

welly wrote: post #59
mchaver wrote: post #48

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…

> May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz buys two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins (valued at around 30 USD at the time). 10,000 BTC = 63,317,800 GBP or 82,204,100 USD as of 2019-10-21 at 16:00 UTC A lot of pizza these days.

And bitcoin is very far from its historical max

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by notzuck »

genidoi wrote: post #44
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

Well that was a weird 1 minute and 20 second intro.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by macintux »

At my university, someone did a demo of what ordering a pizza would look like online, using Pizza Hut's site as an example, sometime in 1994-95.

I remember thinking to myself that was a ridiculous idea, because all of the stores would have to be wired up to the Internet, and who would do that?

That ignored, of course, the possibility that a central location could take the orders and communicate them to the individual stores (which is how it worked for phone ordering at one point, maybe even today), and I completely whiffed on the future ubiquity of the Internet.

You could have made a fortune betting against my computer prognostications in the 90s.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by jamil7 »

anoncake wrote: post #58
jamil7 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pizzahut.de for me with a broken back button so you can't leave again and have to close the tab...

Try long-pressing or right clicking the back button to get a menu of past locations. This used to be a visible and discoverabledrop down menu in most browsers but (insert rant about modern UI design here).

Thanks for the tip.
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