The Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links. http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
It's from the internet "80's" :)
PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
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#122Ahhh... being the webmaster, brings back memories. I do remember going to imdb in those days and making a screen shot to show my relatives over xmas break. Haven't seen it in about 10 years though.
Ahhh... Using the term webmaster, brings back memories.
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#123The 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...
>I'd never seen a tag either:
It is always a good idea to learn about old technologies. Probably the most eloquent reasoning why came from Feynman's "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."
With the exception of the startup I did, I would characterize most of my experience as a developer in life as working with legacy code. It gets a bad reputation, but at the same time I now have a lot of insight.
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#124The 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...
Jeff Bridges makes extensive use of in his webpage. I am unsure if this is apocryphal, but I'm told he makes the whole site himself.
jeffbridges.com
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#125"The Net" (1995) movie thriller with Sandra Bullock about the early internet and cyberterror featured it (named pizza.net) too: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(1995_film) Photos of all websites featured in the movie: http://gizmodo.com/every-webpage-from-the-1995-movie-the-net...
That's funny, it's on swedish TV right now. No I'm not going to watch it.
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#126Ironically, I feel like PizzaHut is now the most outdated of the pizza chains when it comes to web technology. I've been working on a fun project where I need to order pizza gift cards, and PizzaHut is the only chain that doesn't integrate with any gift card APIs. Also, Domino's is way ahead of them when it comes to actually ordering pizzas online. Has anyone seen the Domino's pizza delivery tracker? It's awesome. It…
What gift card api are you using?
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#127Ironically, I feel like PizzaHut is now the most outdated of the pizza chains when it comes to web technology. I've been working on a fun project where I need to order pizza gift cards, and PizzaHut is the only chain that doesn't integrate with any gift card APIs. Also, Domino's is way ahead of them when it comes to actually ordering pizzas online. Has anyone seen the Domino's pizza delivery tracker? It's awesome. It…
What gift card api are you using?
I've talked to a bunch of them about Pizza Hut, and none of them have it, but I'm currently using TangoCard.
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#128digging through the wayback machine, shows a slightly different version from around this time (1996) - https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzah...
Thought this comment was particularly humorous, considering general the lack of content
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#129Does anyone know how the delivery system worked? I assume that there were people who received an email once the form was figured out and passed your info to the local pizza hut
I'd put money on there being a fax machine involved in this somewhere.
I know that SCO was involved with many food franchises in the following way: each location would run a PC with SCO Unix installed and a POS and reporting app. Each nite the reports would be transmitted via satellite dish to HQ.
Very futuristic!
Somebody else will have to confirm if the online pizza orders were emailed to each location automatically, sent via a Unix application, or faxed.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Thanks -- I'm glad you appreciate it! I wrote it as a programming example for The NeWS Toolkit (TnT 2.0), which was an OPEN LOOK user interface toolkit written in Sun's NeWS, a multithreaded object oriented dialect of PostScript. NeWS was a network extensible window system developed by James Gosling, after he made Emacs and before he made Java. Ben Stoltz came up with the idea for a "tatool" gui interface for orderin…
Wow thanks so much for the background info, and thanks for giving me a peek into the past! That makes a lot of sense about how it came about and what it was trying to accomplish, knowing the restraints the software was written under only makes the product you came up with more amazing!
The thing that strikes me the most about this whole thing is that your pizza tool is essentially the same functionality as Domino’s online pizza builder today—but it took the rest of the world a quarter century to recreate what you had in 1990?! Sometimes I feel like the consumer software market has hit the ‘pause’ button on the computer revolution and stalled forward progress for decades…learning about this tool backs that suspicion with proof. You were active during the golden age of desktop software, this must have been such and exciting time to be creating things.
“I would love to be able to order a pizza w/out all the hassles of talking to a human. O:-) ” — Angela Thomas
AMEN! I Loved this quote from the email exchange : ) About to watch your video now, can’t wait to see these ideas brought to life in motion.
Thanks again for the background info and links, feel free to send any further replies to tomhodgins@gmail.com in case this HN thread gets lost. I’d love to hear more about what you built since the pizza tool too, I’m fascinated!