I remember as a kid around 1995 or 1996 seeing a Unix login prompt on the stores computers, and one guy who worked at a store had put some of the modem dial-in numbers on a local BBS. We'd dial in and try to guess the passwords but never got anywhere. Later I learned Pizza Hut ran RedHat.
PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
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Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#32Santa 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.
You must have been a client, too. Brings back old memories.
Also, have a look at the Groklaw archives if you haven't: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2006121221...
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#33How 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.
I think that is most of it. Also, upper case was kind of like a virus back then. When you went to write your first page, looked around at what everyone else was doing, it was all caps so you did all caps.
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#34That's one fast load time.
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#35How come tags are always in uppercase on really old sites and why did the transition to lowercase happen?
According to the standard documents until html4.1 the tags were in uppercase. People followed the standards documents, although there was no explicitly required requirement.
Xhtml which came later (2000) explicitly required them to be in lowercase, and now html5 now states that the case is insensitive.
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Santa Cruz Operation*. It sounds like a warfare tactics thing, heh.
You must have been a client, too. Brings back old memories. Also, have a look at the Groklaw archives if you haven't: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2006121221...
IIRC, Groklaw was created specifically to archive/translate/simplify the SCO litigation, right?
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#37Looks the same with and without javascript, nice!
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#38Very 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 ---- --- -------- 08/18/94 SCO created.
The style here is different.
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#39I remember as a kid around 1995 or 1996 seeing a Unix login prompt on the stores computers, and one guy who worked at a store had put some of the modem dial-in numbers on a local BBS. We'd dial in and try to guess the passwords but never got anywhere. Later I learned Pizza Hut ran RedHat.
Lolwat?
Care to elaborate?
Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
#40Wow, webmaster@... You don't see that email address often/ever anymore?
We still rep it.