This is the ideal web design. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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This is the ideal web design. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
All the frontend folks who follow me running off to figure out how to reimplement this in just 500 megabytes of JavaScript
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@jalefkowit wait, SCO used to sell online shops?
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@dysfun Oh no. This was far enough back that doing basically anything on the web required working with a UNIX wizard
The First Thing That Ever Sold Online Was Pizza - The History of the Web
If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your favorite browser, and then go ahead and order a pizza online. You could do all of this on PizzaNet, owned and operated by Pizza Hut. PizzaNet was an experiment that launched in the early 90βs, [β¦]
The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
GUESS WHAT FAM IT'S STILL THERE
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@jalefkowit real good site
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@dysfun That's wild. It lets me in OK. Wonder if they are geo-blocking it or something...
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by [email protected]
@dysfun The first website I ever worked on was stood up at around that same time, and I still vividly remember the one guy in our little group who was the certified UNIX wizard. (I very much was not.)
It was a lot like the famous Dilbert strip from the same era
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@jalefkowit that was probably about the last time anyone had respect for the author of dilbert too
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@dysfun I think timeline-wise he lost his mind sometime after he gave up his AOL email address. Maybe that was his first mistake
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Chris Mackay π¨π¦replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit redirects me to a page on pizzahut.ca.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Chris Mackay π¨π¦ last edited by
@tantramar I would love to know the logic behind geofencing a static HTML form that doesnβt actually connect to any backend logic anymore
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
βThe technology behind PizzaNet was rudimentary. On the site was a webform, itself fairly complicated but well trodden even in the early days. When the form was submitted, the data was transmitted to a centralized Pizza Hut server in Witchita, then relayed back to the Pizza Hut location in Santa Cruz through an Internet connection that had been set up in the location specifically to receive messages about what orders came through the site. To ensure that the order was error and prankster free, an employee would then call to verify the order, and the customer could pay for the pizza upon delivery.β
The First Thing That Ever Sold Online Was Pizza - The History of the Web
If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your favorite browser, and then go ahead and order a pizza online. You could do all of this on PizzaNet, owned and operated by Pizza Hut. PizzaNet was an experiment that launched in the early 90βs, [β¦]
The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by [email protected]
The above reminds me of a project I worked on circa 1996, when I was an intern in the communications office of the Senate Democrats, and my boss and I got in trouble with the Secret Service for proposing to live-stream Bill Clinton's 1996 State of the Union address by duck-taping a Connectix QuickCam to his podium
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by [email protected]
Turns out the Secret Service doesn't like random, non-security-cleared yahoos from the Hill fucking around with the president's podium. Who knew
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Kim Scheinbergreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit
My husband had one of the earliest webcams in '95"Apple software engineer John Kullmann perched a Webcam in his Cupertino office three years ago. [...]
And just what thrill does Kullmann get out of the 76,000 anonymous visitors that have flashed into his office so far?
"The thought of taking a picture and spying on people is something that appeals to the general public," he said. "I get a sort of pleasure out of catering to that."14/10 wld marry again
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Ben Thompson πreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit this inspired me to go and see if the Berkshire Hathaway website had changed at all. Still looks the same as when I last visited it in about 1999.
They must get a lot of feedback:
> If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Ben Thompson π last edited by
@jbenjamint In defense of Berkshire Hathaway, it's not like they have the money to hire a webmaster