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Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by lazyjones » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:10 PM UTC

kiallmacinnes wrote: post #6

I 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...

It will be funny when websites stop working left and right because essential remotely hosted JS files disappear from various free CDN URLs. Perhaps we'll add more cruft to browsers to compensate (i.e. recognize dead CDN URLs and use a list of replacement hosts).

Of course, the really old web pages will still work because of fewer/no external dependencies.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by cromulent » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

The Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by tokenizerrr » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:32 PM UTC

nashashmi wrote: post #44

bnastic wrote: post #29

Wow, webmaster@... You don't see that email address often/ever anymore?

Back then everything web related was done by one person.

You could have a group inbox.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by ptaipale » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:32 PM UTC

camperman wrote: post #56

ptaipale wrote: post #52

Just reminds me that in Helsinki University of Technology (hut.fi) we of course had to have a host called "pizza": pizza.hut.fi (Nowadays HUT is renamed Aalto University).

Yessssss! Didn't you guys have a mirror of the Amiga demoscene on that host?

I think it had various stuff, that might well have been one part of it. Perhaps it ran Gopher before WWW servers were around? I don't really recall.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by simonebrunozzi » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

The title says "PizzaHut still serves it's first Homepage". From the (British) English grammar I studied in Italy, it should be "its" instead of "it's", and I remember seeing a debate about it a while ago.

Can someone enlighten me? What's the right form?

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by tek-cyb-org » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

cromulent wrote: post #62

The Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links. http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Lol that space jam website still actually looks good.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by lloydde » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #65

The title says "PizzaHut still serves it's first Homepage". From the (British) English grammar I studied in Italy, it should be "its" instead of "it's", and I remember seeing a debate about it a while ago. Can someone enlighten me? What's the right form?

There is no debate. You are correct. "It's" always expands to "it is". I have to tell myself this rule every day :(.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by glial » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #65

The title says "PizzaHut still serves it's first Homepage". From the (British) English grammar I studied in Italy, it should be "its" instead of "it's", and I remember seeing a debate about it a while ago. Can someone enlighten me? What's the right form?

"Its" is a possessive pronoun like his/her/their/our/whose. "It's" is a contraction of "it is", hence the apostrophe. Any time you could grammatically say his/her/their, you should use the version without the apostrophe. Any time you could say "it is", you should use the version with.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by ddoolin » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

cromulent wrote: post #62

The Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links. http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Wow, I knew this was there but hadn't opened the console before. Quite the throwback. ? ? ?! Neat.

I'd never seen a tag either: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by tr352 » Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

lloydde wrote: post #67

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #65

The title says "PizzaHut still serves it's first Homepage". From the (British) English grammar I studied in Italy, it should be "its" instead of "it's", and I remember seeing a debate about it a while ago. Can someone enlighten me? What's the right form?

There is no debate. You are correct. "It's" always expands to "it is". I have to tell myself this rule every day :(.

Or "it has".