The Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links.
"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...
According to wikipedia[1] this was one of the earliest websites to be created.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_befor...
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/~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.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.
At some point in the last ten years they added Google Analytics tracking to the page.
Why does it have the fake browser chrome at the top? did it have that back in the day as well?
That's one fast load time.
How come tags are always in uppercase on really old sites and why did the transition to lowercase happen?
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
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08/18/94 SCO created.
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...
Ahhh... 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.
Santa Cruz Operation (thanks mahouse) aka SCO.
They used to run all the McDonalds stuff at one point iirc.
Its, not it's
Wow, webmaster@... You don't see that email address often/ever anymore?
with google analytics embedded, and actual form removed. so, deliberate.
I 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.
I've missed NCSA Mosaic so much. What a flashback! But do you guys remember Trumpet Winsock?
Looks the same with and without javascript, nice!
Ironically, 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.
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).
When 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.
I 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.
digging 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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* PIZZA HUT INC. *
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* 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. *
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HTML index.html
DESCRIPTION Home Page.
REVISIONS
Date Who Comments
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08/18/94 SCO created.
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Does 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
It'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.
for those curious about the icon in the upper right, google "ncsa mosaic"
Ah, the signature all-caps HTML tags of the 90s.
So... did anybody try to order a pizza?
I like how it is just functional.
looks macintoshy
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?
Well 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.
I 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.