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Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by segfaultbuserr » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

ben1040 wrote: post #97

choppaface wrote: post #72

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But the web-scale demand for SCO Unix never really materialized. Linux took much of the marketshare while SCO went after IBM https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/ibm_vs_sco_revives/

That wasn't the same SCO, the SCO that sued IBM was the Linux vendor Caldera who purchased SCO's assets and renamed themselves as such.

Yes, the original SCO was "good". It was Caldera Systems's CEO who started the lawsuits, suing everyone, they even sued Novell for the Unix trademark, and obviously got a notorious reputation and turned SCO into a dirty world. And of course, it almost lost all cases and his company became an utter piece of garbage.

Seriously, what was the CEO thinking about?! I guess Caldera Systems purchased SCO, thought it was a good deal, but they suddenly found the days of commercial proprietary Unix were ending and the purchase was a mistake, and this is how they started its assaults.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by throwaway_law » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #90

throwaway_law wrote: post #83

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>Pizza Hut’s and Domino’s pages from the mid-90s are more blind-accessible than the meth-addled versions of today. We’ve somehow regressed. Google wasn't dictating how websites are developed/optimized back then.

Sure, blame Google instead of lazy developers who can't be bothered to give a damn about anyone's time but their own.

Its funny when I type "Pizza" into Google, the first organic result is Pizzahut.com, not bad for a bunch of lazy developers who don't take Google SEO into account.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by Iv » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

yk wrote: post #64

Iv wrote: post #25

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"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.

But more expensive. However engineers estimate that an appropriate rail gun would have 10 times the range of an average drone so would cover a wider area.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by auiya » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

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.

I wonder if Pizza Hut still owns those 10k BTC they bought for the price of two pizzas?

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by _-___________-_ » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:25 PM UTC

auiya wrote: post #104

welly wrote: post #59

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> 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.

I wonder if Pizza Hut still owns those 10k BTC they bought for the price of two pizzas?

IIRC, the transaction was between two people; Pizza Hut didn't touch any Bitcoin.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by dougb5 » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

By comparison, the current pizzahut.com home page makes 92 network requests, including 34 potential trackers according to Privacy Badger.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by the137 » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

auiya wrote: post #104

welly wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I wonder if Pizza Hut still owns those 10k BTC they bought for the price of two pizzas?

If I remember correctly he traded the BTC to another user who then put the pizzas on his credit card

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by axaxs » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

segfaultbuserr wrote: post #82

axaxs wrote: post #27

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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.

> SCO is synonymous with evil old school unix. The full name Santa Cruz Operation only refers to the original SCO company (which sold itself in 2001), not the SCO Group which purchased SCO and turned its name into a dirty word. Unlike the SCO Group, the original SCO was old-school commercial Unix, but it didn't have such a bad reputation. Quite a few hackers in the Unix world worked with the original SCO.

Thanks for the history, seriously interesting! My interaction was shortly after 2001, but on an ancient system. Guessing it had some parts from both histories.

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by axaxs » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

stockkid wrote: post #43

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.

When ready to order, I agree. However, when browsing for what's available, it's a frustrating experience. The last time I wanted to see prices from Papa Johns, I couldn't. They want you to sign in with your pizza profile, which I didn't have. Ok fine, enter your zip code, then pick delivery or pickup, then pick the store. Why do I need to do all of this to see prices? It more often than not just makes me skip it and move on to a competitor...

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by magashna » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

_ea1k wrote: post #99

thrower123 wrote: post #77

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Ordering pizza might be one of the few things that is better to do over the phone than online. It's far quicker to say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, well done", than to fight through the combobox salad of seemingly every pizzeria online ordering system.

I disagree, but only because that order will get turned into a large pizza with all pepperoni pretty regularly. Modifiers get lost on phone orders very regularly.

"Can you read my order back to me?"

Not that hard.