How come tags are always in uppercase on really old sites and why did the transition to lowercase happen?
PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
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#12looks macintoshy
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#13At some point in the last ten years they added Google Analytics tracking to the page.
Last modified Mon, 30 Dec 2013 if you use http://web-sniffer.net/ to look at the HTTP response header.
Looks like they not just still serving it, but have updated it at some point in time also.
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#14How come tags are always in uppercase on really old sites and why did the transition to lowercase happen?
My guess is that back in the day we'd be writing these pages in a plain text editor and all caps made it easier to distinguish tags.
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#15It's missing a form element. Clicking submit doesn't even send your name, street address or voice phone. They must have had to guess what kind of pizza you wanted and and where to send it by the ip address in the server logs. Funny how the Document Title and Document URL are in text fields at the top of the page.
This is how you could visually design and order pizzas via email-to-fax in 1990:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif
Here's the manual entry and source code for PizzaTool, written in NeWS PostScript, which shipped with OpenWindows on Solaris:
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.6
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.txt
The MIT AI Lab had a program called AI:HUMOR;TS FTP, the Food Transfer Protocol, which was supposed to allow you to download pizzas and other kinds of food over the internet, but it had some bugs and limitations.
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#16Santa Cruz Operation (thanks mahouse) aka SCO. They used to run all the McDonalds stuff at one point iirc.
Santa Cruz Operation*. It sounds like a warfare tactics thing, heh.
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#17Why does it have the fake browser chrome at the top? did it have that back in the day as well?
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#18According to wikipedia[1] this was one of the earliest websites to be created. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_befor...
Not sure how accurate the numbers [1] are but some interesting numbers there, relevant here [2].
[1] http://www.internetlivestats.com/
[2] http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/
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#19How come tags are always in uppercase on really old sites and why did the transition to lowercase happen?
I believe xhtml made uppercase tags invalid.
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#20Its, not it's
Its, not it's.