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Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by ddoolin »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #76
ddoolin wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Even today is useful and good at what it does for, say, interactive maps. Which is why it hasn't been removed.

Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised to open the MDN doc page and not see a deprecation notice.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by nrs26 »

rb2k_ wrote: post #47
danbruc wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

At least this says 1993: $ whois pizzahut.com | grep Creation Creation Date: 07-dec-1993 Creation Date: 1993-12-07T05:00:00Z

That's a cool trick. Didn't know you could do that.

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by eddieroger »

Lorento wrote: post #26

Very 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.

Normally when I end up on the Wayback Machine, I spend a few minutes lamenting a web gone by, but for some reason I clicked around this one for a few minutes. They have a really fascinating backstory (although short) as to how the site got up and running, and discussing the first pizza delivered from the web on the About page.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970214123825/http://www.pizzahu...

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by 7sigma »

ddoolin wrote: post #69
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...

some of the comments made me chuckle:

Re: PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

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Post by err4nt »

DonHopkins wrote: post #15

It'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/~hopk…

Wow, I looked at the screenshot and didnt think much of it, but when I looked at the source code I got sucked right in! Thats brilliant, I dont understand the language but the thinking and patterns of the software are visible and I found it easy enough to follow.

One thing I was curious about was how that icon stored near the end of the file looks when rendered.

Did you write this script? This is exactly the kind of fascinating stuff I come to HN hoping to find :)

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