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Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by rconti »

thrower123 wrote: post #77
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.

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.

"Hello, Pizza Hut, can you hold? "

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by SilasX »

macintux wrote: post #68

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…

Can't find the source, but I remember reading an author from the 60s who predicted the internet, but also predicted you'd treat it like a catalog and still have to call in and read off the product numbers you wanted to order and communicate them to a human operator -- even for someone who could predict the internet, it still seemed like a leap to suggest that even the order itself could be processed over that same network!

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by magashna »

CDSlice wrote: post #115
magashna wrote: post #110

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"Can you read my order back to me?" Not that hard.

Or I could just order online and make sure it is right the first time? Also, there is no way I'd just call in and say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, well done" because that just seems incredibly rude so calling would take even more time. Much easier to load the website/app and enter your pizza

Every pizza joint around me has better deals when calling in.

I can't imagine you've ever called a pizza place. It's a business transaction, there's no pleasantries on either side. It's not rude. They want to move on with the business as quick as you want to hang up.

Maybe it's just a North East thing but my calls for pizza are about 10 seconds long and I've never thought "Gino is being rude, he didn't ask me how I was doing"

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by a3n »

CDSlice wrote: post #115
magashna wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Can you read my order back to me?" Not that hard.

Or I could just order online and make sure it is right the first time? Also, there is no way I'd just call in and say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, well done" because that just seems incredibly rude so calling would take even more time. Much easier to load the website/app and enter your pizza

Aren't all of you glad that you can order on the web or by phone, as you prefer?

Aren't all of you glad that you can use Vim or Emacs, as you prefer?

Aren't you all glad that you can shave your yak in a bike shed painted exactly the way you prefer?

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by lizardwalk5 »

thrower123 wrote: post #77
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.

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.

well, it seems like if the system is tracking you, then it should only be hard the first time. then it should default to your known preferences. unless you order a different pizza every time...

Re: Pizza Hut’s First Website

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Post by gavindean90 »

rconti wrote: post #120
tinus_hn wrote: post #88

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The code name for Netscape was Mozilla, the ‘Mosaic killer’

Holy crap, I never knew where Mozilla came from. (obligatory xkcd-everyone-knows goes here)

I mean it should be around 10,000 today that are learning about the xkcd for the first time: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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