Pizza Hut’s First Website (pizzahut.com)

(which was a host at the Helsinki University of Technology, I think it was a Sun box).

    ****************************************************************************
    *                                                                          *
    *                            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.
    **

Edit: weirdly, it loads one now.

src : wikipedia (donate if you can!)

> someone found it wardialing.

Aha! It was the amazing days, you just dial a bunch of numbers in your area, and you get all sorts of exposed mainframes and servers from various organizations on the phone line. It was the origin of the common hacker trope.

Today, computers are ubiquitous, but most of them are embedded devices, IoT, smartphones or PCs, you can never find a mainframe in the wild again, the green-blinking CRT terminals from the 80s and the impression of "hack everything" is long gone,

The full name Santa Cruz Operation only refers to the original SCO company (which sold itself in 2001), not the SCO Group which purchased SCO and turned its name into a dirty word. Unlike the SCO Group, the original SCO was old-school commercial Unix, but it didn't have such a bad reputation. Quite a few hackers in the Unix world worked with the original SCO.

Quote near beginning to put things in context of where we were back in 1994 :

“ To participate in the pilot, hungry Santa Cruzers need computers with Internet access and a version of an Internet interface program called Mosaic.”

But other interesting predictions:

“Instead of simply letting people order a pizza, why not let them design it as well? Instead of showing an ordinary menu with a list of toppings, show a picture of a pizza with the toppings clustered on the side.”

And then : “Why not customized T-shirts? Log on to the Internet and browse through assorted logos and designs. Mix, match and modify them to suit your interest. Then superimpose them onto the virtual T-shirt on the screen. Hit the right key and within 48 hours your new shirt is Fed-Exed to the desired address.

Of course, this network designability concept easily extends to bouquets of flowers, boxes of chocolates, fruit baskets and the $6.85-billion annual market in mail-order clothes shopping. It would be perfect for all kinds of gift giving.”

I expect it was more recently put online from the archives, but retaining its date of authorship (as it should) rather than being originally published online in 1994 and remaining there since.

People called a central dispatch and we received printouts of the orders. We would call the office to let them know our current projected delivery times, but other questions they could already answer.

I agree though, it was very surprising.