In 1994, Pizza Hut experimented with an online ordering web page for their Santa Cruz, California operations. That web page is still online to this day, although not functional.
Those were my college days, and when a class required I get info from a website I was like, “Ugh, I have to go to the computer lab?!?”
That's exactly how I encountered the web as well. It was the Fall of 1994, my freshman year. My Medieval Studies professor wanted us to go look at some tapestries on a website. I had a modern computer in my dorm room with dial-up, but I didn't know at all what a web browser was, so I had to go to the computer lab to use Mosaic.
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Scotch: Current favorite- The Arran (anything by them), Glenmorangie 12yr Lasanta, sherry cask finished. The Balvenie Double Wood, also like Oban 18yr, and The Glenlivet Nadurra (Oloroso sherry cask finished) among others. Neat please.
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When my wife was pregnant with our first in 1992, one of the things she craved while pregnant was a Pizza Hut Bigfoot pizza, with pepperoni and jalapeños. I would call the order in, then hop in the car and drive for 15 minutes each way to go get her pizza. No one delivered to where we lived out in the sticks.
That one I could handle. When she wanted WATERMELON in January and I had to visit every grocery store within 15 miles to find it? Eek!
IIRC it was somewhere around '96 when our little business posted its first web site. Pretty rudimentary, a couple pictures, mission statement type description, and contact info. Since we were auto repair many folks were surprised that we not only had a computer (actually 5 in all) but that we had one of them weby sitey thingies. This was in Seattle so there was more of a tech bias in the potential customer base. Times, and expectations, have changed a might since then.
Michael_in_TX I first played Colossal Cavern (the text adventure) on a mainframe owned by the University System of Georgia. DEC PDP-11 I think. We also had a multi-user text mode game that was similar, but with students from all over the state in the game at once.
Earlier today I actually fired up an SSH window over to my Linux server and ran "adventure" at the command line and that is how it starts. Standing in front of the well house of a spring...
I remember Pizza Hut and SCO in 1994 when I lived in Santa Cruz! Thanks for the ride in the way-back machine Mr Peabody!
But, we lived down the street from Upper Crust Pizza, way better!!!
I remember punch cards from elementary school: the first week of class they sat us all in the cafeteria and guided us through marking cards with our name, address, etc. These were sent to the ISD headquarters and their machine punched out the areas we colored in to make our punch card record for the school district. Once bought a 1969 Magnavox console at an estate sale. original warranty card on the back was a punch card.
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jfmorris My wife (geophysicist) was required to take a FORTRAN 77 class for undergrad as late as 1997. (Apparently due to so much legacy FORTRAN code still in use at the time in industry.) At UT Austin, there was a single professor remaining who taught it....in aerospace engineering, not only a totally different department, but a different college.
Michael_in_TX Wow! Fortran in 1997! I think I learned it in 1975. We submitted punch cards in the basement of the EE building at UF. =syntex error! =syntex error! =Syntex error! 🙄😂
Michael_in_TX wow UT Austin was hard core! By the time I graduated in 1988 (5 1/2 year plan!), the FORTRAN requirement had been lifted in lieu of some general computer science course for engineering students.
COBOL is an even more extreme thing than FORTRAN. They've not taught it since the 60's or 70's, yet it is still in use somehow, in financial systems.
So much '90s!
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