This is not strictly Pizza Hut's first website.<p>Pizza Hut's first website was built in 1994 [1]. This webpage has Javascript (1995) [2] running Google Tag Manager (2012) [3]. The article about Pizza Hut's first website [1] provides more context than just the webpage.<p>[1]: <a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/pizzanet/" rel="nofollow">https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/pizzanet/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Advertising_services" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Advert...</a>
At my university, someone did a demo of what ordering a pizza would look like online, using Pizza Hut's site as an example, sometime in 1994-95.<p>I remember thinking to myself that was a ridiculous idea, because all of the stores would have to be wired up to the Internet, and who would do that?<p>That ignored, of course, the possibility that a central location could take the orders and communicate them to the individual stores (which is how it worked for phone ordering at one point, maybe even today), and I completely whiffed on the future ubiquity of the Internet.<p>You could have made a fortune betting against my computer prognostications in the 90s.
I got a 403 forbidden message, but archive.org works.<p>* <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140123215657/https://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20140123215657/https://www.pizza...</a><p>> PizzaNet is Pizza Hut's Electronic Storefront and is brought to you by Pizza Hut® and The Santa Cruz Operation®<p>What, the original SCO, THE Unix company, built the website for Pizza Hut? The original SCO dissolved in 2001, so it must be earlier?
Let's collect all the internet's historical pizza moments. I've collected a few from the comments here and added a few.<p>- 1990, Don Hopkins uses the PizzaTool to fax a pizza order.<p>- 1992, Snow Crash is published. Readers imagine interconnected virtual worlds and action packed pizza delivery. Often quoted book in regards to internet, MMORPGs and pizza.<p>- 1994, Pizza Hut's Pizza Net allows users in Santa Cruz to order pizza.<p>- May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz buys two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins (valued at around 30 USD at the time).
In a way, I miss the naive old web. Now you get popups, requests to have your location, prompts to sign in before you can get deals, etc. In many ways a simple web form asking for pizza is a better user experience.
"Y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software),<p>and high-speed pizza delivery."<p>—Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
Apparently, the site automatically redirects me to the standard German site. Fantastic. My hate for the modern web continues to grow. You could replace the protagonists of I Have No Mouth with walking, talking websites and it'd roughly mirror what I'm feeling right now. The only way I could see what everybody was talking about was by checking out <a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/pizzanet/" rel="nofollow">https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/pizzanet/</a> and the archive.org page which were linked by somebody else.
What I see is :<p>"Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "<a href="http://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html"" rel="nofollow">http://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html"</a> on this server.
Reference #18.8a0a1602.1571725900.474a5bfd"<p>This could have been the old Pizza Hut web site, but I think this is just an error, maybe due to server load?
Pizzanet was started in August 1994, and was hosted at Pizza Hut Headquarters in Wichita, Kansas.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120609100313/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199408/msg00057.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20120609100313/http://www.intere...</a>
Looking at this old site, I see the future of the web. This navbar + hero + a bunch of marketing fluff that nobody reads.. it's grandma/grandpa shit. It's like those walmart photograph frames with teddy bears on them. It seems cool now, you can make six figures making this shit, but it's ridiculous.
While probably not really Pizza Hut's first web site, I think this goes a long way to show how a lot of the internet has actually regressed. We've gone from this simple form that just asks "Who wants pizza and where can we call you?" and, instead of going to "Who wants pizza and where should we bring it?", we went to ads and pop-ups and to a place where, arguably, the process is way more complicated than it needs to be.<p>Advertising kinda ruined the internet.
And ten years later they were innovating online again with "slash-pizza": <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2005/02/17/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm?cnn=yes" rel="nofollow">https://money.cnn.com/2005/02/17/commentary/game_over/column...</a>
The first time I saw anything on a computer related to pizza ordering was the Sun NeWS pizzatool:<p><a href="https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems...</a>
A few years back their site wouldn't work with some adblocker options, I believe their js didn't handle the circumstances of if their geoip analytics was blocks.<p>I just emailed their support, gave them the details, and they fixed it and gave me a $20 card. Was a nice transaction.
What was the actual date on this? I assume it was wayyyy before 2014 haha.<p>Imagine telling them back then that someone could fill out all the details on the website, choose their pizza and customise toppings AND have it delivered by a robot.<p>They'd think you were high!
I remember the pizza ordering scene in The Net (1995) seemed very futuristic at the time:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSqX7B5DXs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSqX7B5DXs</a>
Ah, memories. The frustration was they wouldn’t deliver from CA to NY.<p>Fascinating to watch technology go from world-changing bleeding-edge to archeological discovery.
The Story of Sun Microsystems PizzaTool:
How I accidentally ordered my first pizza over the internet. (Oct 1990)<p><a href="https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems...</a>
I wonder if they will be forced to add a GDPR notice for an unlisted subpage :)<p>Oh they have Google Analytics and a link to a now-404-ed JS <a href="https://www.pizzahut.com/akam/11/6df12bd5" rel="nofollow">https://www.pizzahut.com/akam/11/6df12bd5</a> . It is like they tried to maintain/upgrade at some point.