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PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
- morenoh149 11y agolooks macintoshy
- snsr 11y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
- sedatk 11y agowith google analytics embedded, and actual form removed. so, deliberate.
- 07d046 11y agoAt some point in the last ten years they added Google Analytics tracking to the page.
- eduadecastro 11y agoYes and today it will be all worked up!
- runarb 11y agoLast modified Mon, 30 Dec 2013 if you use http://web-sniffer.net/ http://web-sniffer.net/ to look at the HTTP response header. Looks like they not just still serving it, but have updated it at some point in time also.
- raverbashing 11y agoIts, not it's
- nthcolumn 11y agoIts, not it's.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- DonHopkins 11y agoEnjoy a delicious It's-It ice cream treat, a San Francisco Experience since 1928! https://www.itsiticecream.com/ https://www.itsiticecream.com/ Of course you can order them delivered online, just like pizza (but with a minimum of 8 cases): https://www.itsiticecream.com/order/ https://www.itsiticecream.com/order/
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- seanp2k2 11y agoTL;DR only use the apostrophe when you're saying "it is" or "it has". "Its" is possessive even without the apostrophe. More: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/apostrophe-catastrophe-part-one http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/apostroph...
- kiallmacinnes 11y agoI 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...
- blfr 11y agoScrape the website to html and css and toss that up anywhere. Every CMS can be a static site generator if you want it to be.
- kiallmacinnes 11y agoSure, but many of these sites are taken down/replaced, and only years later does nostalgia kick in... At that point, its too late to scrape the site!
- 525 11y agoThat's why archive.org exists.
- lazyjones 11y agoIt 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.
- Yetanfou 11y agoBy that time you'll simply include the whole infrastructure in a 'web'-served container, running in a 'sandbox' of sorts on your 'browser'. Quotes where terminology is an unsure fit with whatever you'll be using by that time.
- noir_lord 11y agoSanta Cruz Operation (thanks mahouse) aka SCO. They used to run all the McDonalds stuff at one point iirc.
- mahouse 11y agoSanta Cruz Operation*. It sounds like a warfare tactics thing, heh.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoYou 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=20061212211835541 http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2006121221...
- vollmond 11y agoIIRC, Groklaw was created specifically to archive/translate/simplify the SCO litigation, right?
- noir_lord 11y agoYep and it was a truly amazing and fascinating resource writing about a fascinating case.
- quesera 11y agoWrong SCO. Caldera renamed themselves The SCO Group after acquiring the name and trademark from The Santa Cruz Operation in 2001. Later, things went south and the new SCO(G) turned litigious. The original SCO was not responsible for the later shenanigans, and it was painful to see their name dragged through the mud. See also: Cingular -> AT&T
- maxerickson 11y agoWho is dragging what through the mud with Cingular and AT&T?
- jamessantiago 11y agoAccording to wikipedia[1] this was one of the earliest websites to be created. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_befor...
- danbruc 11y agoNot sure how accurate the numbers [1] are but some interesting numbers there, relevant here [2]. [1] http://www.internetlivestats.com/ http://www.internetlivestats.com/ [2] http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/
- rb2k_ 11y agoAt least this says 1993: $ whois pizzahut.com | grep Creation Creation Date: 07-dec-1993 Creation Date: 1993-12-07T05:00:00Z
- nrs26 11y agoThat's a cool trick. Didn't know you could do that.
- simlevesque 11y agoWhois or Grep ?
- mrbill 11y agoDomain registration doesn't imply website creation.
- Kiro 11y agoHow come tags are always in uppercase on really old sites and why did the transition to lowercase happen?
- wangarific 11y agoMy 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.
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- blakeja 11y agoI 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.
- Untit1ed 11y agoI believe xhtml made uppercase tags invalid.
- officemonkey 11y agoThat is correct. From "XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)" 4.2. Element and attribute names must be in lower case XHTML documents must use lower case for all HTML element and attribute names. This difference is necessary because XML is case-sensitive e.g. <li> and <LI> are different tags.
- chippy 11y agoAccording 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.
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- DonHopkins 11y agoIt'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/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif Here's the manual entry and source code for PizzaTool, written in NeWS PostScript, which shipped with OpenWindows on Solaris: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.6 http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.6 http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.txt The MIT AI Lab had a program called AI:HUMOR;TS FTP, the Food Transfer Protocol, which was supposed to allow you to download pizzas and other kinds of food over the internet, but it had some bugs and limitations.
- err4nt 11y agoWow, 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 :)
- DonHopkins 11y agoThanks -- 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 ordering pizzas from Tony & Albas pizzaria down the road in Mountain View, which he implemented in XView using DevGUIde (Sun's GUI builder tool). It inspired me to write Pizzatool for TnT in PostScript by hand -- I remember staying up late at night writing snippets of PostScript code for each of the different pizza toppings! My initial version would draw a preview of the pizza on the screen, and then fax the image over to the pizza parlor, which confused them a lot because they couldn't tell which ingredients I wanted by looking at the black and white halftone screen printed pizza picture. So the next version just printed text describing the ingredients and delivery instructions, which took a lot less time to fax and was a lot more readable than a halftone image. There was a bit of a controversy internally at Sun about releasing and supporting the source code, which toolkit to use (there were a lot of politics surrounding that at the time), and unintentionally revealing Sun's secret multimedia pizza faxing strategy to the press. But I wrote a manual entry, disabled the email-to-fax feature, replaced it with a menacing pop-up notification that threatened to hold your pizza hostage until you payed your tab, and managed to ship it in Solaris/SVR4 as an OpenWindows/NeWS demo. Andy Bechtolsheim used it as an example of Sun's multimedia strategy in a SunWorld interview, and Unix Toady wrote an article about it, so the fallout wasn't as bad as some people were afraid of. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool-mail.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool-mail.t... The idea was to test out and demonstrate how to program many of the dynamic user interface widgets, menus, windows, and drag and drop techniques in TNT 2.0. For example, it forked off light weight threads to draw all your pizza toppings at once, and you could spin the pizza to "cook" it by rotating the pixels repeatedly, then drag and drop an image into the pizza to customize it! It could even interoperate with another demo called "RasterRap". Here's a video that demonstrates spinning pizzas and dragging and dropping images from RasterRap into PizzaTool, which I recorded at the Exploratorium years ago (PizzaTool demo starts at 21:40, and the white and red pizzatool icon is visible at 13:00 -- it looks like a pizza box): http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/HyperLookDemo.mov http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/HyperLookDemo.mov Demonstration of SimCity running under the HyperLook user interface development system, based on NeWS PostScript. Includes a demonstration of editing HyperLook graphics and user interfaces, the HyperLook Cellular Automata Machine, and the HyperLook Happy Tool. Also shows The NeWS Toolkit applications PizzaTool and RasterRap. HyperLook developed by Arthur van Hoff and Don Hopkins at the Turing Institute. SimCity ported to Unix and HyperLook by Don Hopkins. HyperLook Cellular Automata Machine, Happy Tool, The NeWS Toolkit, PizzaTool and Raster Rap developed by Don Hopkins. Demonstration, transcript and close captioning by Don Hopkins. Camera and interview by Abbe Don. Taped at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
- bonaldi 11y agoWhy does it have the fake browser chrome at the top? did it have that back in the day as well?
- gpvos 11y agoProbably not. See the wayback links from 1996 that others have posted.
- Lorento 11y agoVery similar in 1996 on the wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzahut.com/ 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.
- jangid 11y agoThe style here is different.
- im3w1l 11y agoYeah, this seems more faithful to the original. For one, it has a submit button that actually submits the form. In wbm's version, clicking the hat also actually brings up a contact form as the text says it should. I love how they aligned input elements by using monospace and matching number of characters. A paradigm predating even tables!
- eddieroger 11y agoNormally 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.pizzahut.com/htdocs/team.html http://web.archive.org/web/19970214123825/http://www.pizzahu...
- camperman 11y agoI was in Santa Cruz at SCO Forum when PizzaHut took its first ecommerce order and delivery. It was 1995 or 1996 I think. It made the news that evening while a bunch of us were sitting in a bar in Carmel. My abiding memory is that the news clip was tagged Information Superhighway.
- bnastic 11y agoWow, webmaster@... You don't see that email address often/ever anymore?
- jbrooksuk 11y agoWe still rep it.
- nashashmi 11y agoBack then everything web related was done by one person.
- tokenizerrr 11y agoYou could have a group inbox.
- deadfece 11y agoYou don't see many of the RFC2142 addresses at all. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
- hackmiester 11y agoThat's what we use for our web team! It's definitely still around.
- bluedino 11y agoI 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.
- k__ 11y agoLolwat? Care to elaborate?
- ikillvampires 11y agoThat's one fast load time.
- gavinpc 11y agoIt's 85% pagespeed score and 92% YSlow [0]. It's not valid, but it's responsive. It has no jQuery dependency, but it uses Google Analytics. It's insecure HTTP but a "trusted" hostname. It's low contrast and navigable (inasmuch as there are no links). Plus ca change... [0] http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.pizzahut.com/7MCdOcHp http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.pizzahut.com/7MCdOcHp
- megablast 11y agoLooks the same with and without javascript, nice!
- aurora72 11y agoWell Pizzahut makes the most delicious pizzas and is the best managed fast food company around. So they pay tribute to their past website, that's nice.
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- marincounty 11y agoWhen I ordered pizza, I was usually getting drunk, and just got a late call from someone who wanted to drop by. I knew we needed some grub for the upcoming night of debauchery.(Yea, I was quite the charmer?) Even now, I would rather have the original website, over the flashy current one. Sometimes less is more? Do I want to make more than a few decisions when ordering a pie--under the influence? I kind of liked calling--order--cash--bye bye.
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- ptaipale 11y agoJust 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).
- frik 11y ago"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://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(1995_film) 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-1592821504 http://gizmodo.com/every-webpage-from-the-1995-movie-the-net...
- Moru 11y agoThat's funny, it's on swedish TV right now. No I'm not going to watch it.
- emehrkay 11y agoDoes 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
- kayamon 11y agoI'd put money on there being a fax machine involved in this somewhere.
- throwaway888709 11y agoI 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.
- cromulent 11y agoThe Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links. http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
- tek-cyb-org 11y agoLol that space jam website still actually looks good.
- ddoolin 11y agoWow, I knew this was there but hadn't opened the console before. Quite the throwback. <center>? <nobr>? <font>?! Neat. I'd never seen a <map> tag either: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/map https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
- CiaranMcNulty 11y agoYou kids... I was the king of <MAP> back in the day
- balls187 11y agoAnd I was your trusted adviser. Hand selecting x,y points was all the rage in the mid 90's.
- JshWright 11y agoOh man... I'm having flashbacks to how badly that tag got abused... Who needs HTML? Just create the layout in photoshop, export the whole thing to a flat image, and map all the links...
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoThe 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?
- lloydde 11y agoThere is no debate. You are correct. "It's" always expands to "it is". I have to tell myself this rule every day :(.
- tr352 11y agoOr "it has".
- glial 11y ago"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.
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- hk__2 11y agoYes it should be “its” here.
- cJ0th 11y agoI like how it is just functional.
- Sami_Lehtinen 11y agoI've missed NCSA Mosaic so much. What a flashback! But do you guys remember Trumpet Winsock?
- abandonliberty 11y agoGod we're old. Someone started a donation page for the creator. http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/
- frik 11y agoYou can always use Internet Explorer, it's based on the Mosaic browser. Up to version 6, the Mosaic code copyright notice was in the about dialog.
- SystemOut 11y agoYeah, we're definitely old. I was working my first developer gig at a company that had a commercial TCP/IP stack for Win 3.1+. Trumpet came up all the time especially from customers that were trying to get a better deal. Sort of a tangent but I still remember building a SOCKS client on top of Winsock using undocumented Windows APIs. It was great that you could simply ask Windows to alias your code segment register to look like a data segment register and then replace the first 5 bytes of function calls to jump where you wanted it to go. And DLLs were in the global space back then. So it changed it for every app using that DLL. Those were fun days.
- yuhong 11y agoWhich also reminds me that MS made the decision to go to a flat address space when designing OS/2 2.0 and "NT OS/2" in the late 1980s, ignoring the Morris worm.
- jliptzin 11y agoAh, the signature all-caps HTML tags of the 90s.
- drhodes 11y agofor those curious about the icon in the upper right, google "ncsa mosaic"
- soheil 11y agoIt's incredible how not much has changed in online pizza delivery. Fill in your name, address and phone # and we deliver your pizza, there got to be a better way.
- orblivion 11y agoThere's a pizza, it comes from a place, and goes to your place. What more could there possibly be that wouldn't it more complicated?
- Demiurge 11y agoTELEPATHIC QUADRACOPTERS
- et2o 11y agoI'f that comment was sarcastic, I may have missed it... Does there have to be a better way? It's not a complex transaction and it seems like it's pretty much solved. Now they store your information for easier access.
- noblethrasher 11y agoSomething like the Magic app[1] that was on HN a few weeks ago is a promising suggestion. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819
- dethstar 11y agoSo you give that info to a 3rd party and thats it?
- jebblue 11y agoI think it's pretty cool that they keep the original page working. I prefer it to the new page which has the modern day over-sized everything, over-sized text boxes, etc. It would be a nice site if they sized the widgets down to something that doesn't force me to scroll up and down constantly while building my pizza.
- orblivion 11y agoSo... did anybody try to order a pizza?
- gummywormsyum 11y agoit's pizza hut ...ew
- mixmastamyk 11y agoAhhh... 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.
- pan69 11y agoAhhh... Using the term webmaster, brings back memories.
- jmckib 11y agoIronically, 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 actually makes delivery feel faster by breaking it into steps.
- M2Ys4U 11y agoPizza Hut keeps their users' passwords in plain text as well.
- rylee 11y agoNo doubt about that! It's a shame they're miles ahead of the other chains in actually putting lots of jalapenos on the goddamn pizzas when I ask for extra jalapenos, though!
- amccloud 11y agoWhat gift card api are you using?
- jmckib 11y agoI've talked to a bunch of them about Pizza Hut, and none of them have it, but I'm currently using TangoCard.
- cleverjake 11y agodigging through the wayback machine, shows a slightly different version from around this time (1996) - https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzahut.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzah... Thought this comment was particularly humorous, considering general the lack of content <! * * * PIZZA HUT INC. * * * * PHI proprietary information: the enclosed materials contain * * proprietary information of Pizza Hut Inc. and shall * * not be disclosed in whole or in any part to any third party * * or used by any person for any purpose, without written consent * * of PHI. Duplication of any portion of these materials shall * * include this legend. * * * HTML index.html DESCRIPTION Home Page. REVISIONS Date Who Comments ---- --- -------- 08/18/94 SCO created. ->