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> Joey's pizza did have a web presence before Facebook. My recollection is that far fewer businesses had any web presence in 2004. Big professional ones did, b
by School-Cotton 5y ago
> Joey's pizza did have a web presence before Facebook.
My recollection is that far fewer businesses had any web presence in 2004. Big professional ones did, but random family-owned restaurants usually didn’t.
- Swenrekcah 5y agoThat may be dependent on the location. In my country basically every business had an online presence by 2004. They certainly would by now, even if Facebook didn’t exist.
- School-Cotton 5y agoInteresting. Do you mind saying what country?
- alistairSH 5y agoUSA (Northern VA, specifically). Most of thee places I dine regularly have a web presence. About half, it's just a simple home page with a pdf menu. About half have some sort of online reservation or ordering platform integrated.
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- handrous 5y agoFacebook didn't start eating the small business site market until well after 2004. More like 2010 or later. Some places that definitely would have a site otherwise, don't, but have Facebook instead. Some have a site but neglect it, so if you want current info you have to check their Facebook page. Others had sites and let them lapse because FB took over that role. Hell, the local public schools are like that, too. Have sites, send emails and texts and such, but FB is absolutely the best channel to get school & district news from.
- tdeck 5y agoAn even more unfortunate trend is the very small businesses that only accept orders by Instagram message. Believe it or not I've seen this at two different local food delivery businesses that I wanted to support but couldn't because I don't have an Instagram account.