How 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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PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
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#24I wonder how we'll do this kind of thing 10 years from now? Web pages have got so complex, even simple blogs etc, that serving them without keeping the infrastructure running is going to get harder and harder...
Scrape the website to html and css and toss that up anywhere. Every CMS can be a static site generator if you want it to be.
Sure, but many of these sites are taken down/replaced, and only years later does nostalgia kick in... At that point, its too late to scrape the site!
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Its, not it's.
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Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#26Very similar in 1996 on the wayback machine
http://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzahu...
Comment shows it was created in 1994
HTML index.html
DESCRIPTION Home Page.
REVISIONS
Date Who Comments
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08/18/94 SCO created.
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#27How 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.
That is correct. From "XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)"
4.2. Element and attribute names must be in lower case
XHTML documents must use lower case for all HTML element and attribute names. This difference is necessary because XML is case-sensitive e.g. and are different tags.
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#28I was in Santa Cruz at SCO Forum when PizzaHut took its first ecommerce order and delivery. It was 1995 or 1996 I think. It made the news that evening while a bunch of us were sitting in a bar in Carmel. My abiding memory is that the news clip was tagged Information Superhighway.
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#29Wow, webmaster@... You don't see that email address often/ever anymore?
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Scrape the website to html and css and toss that up anywhere. Every CMS can be a static site generator if you want it to be.
Sure, but many of these sites are taken down/replaced, and only years later does nostalgia kick in... At that point, its too late to scrape the site!
That's why archive.org exists.