BTW I should mention that this is a screenshot taken via oldweb.today, a website that lets you emulate a bunch of old browsers to browse the wayback machine or even the live web. https://oldweb.today
It's a @webrecorder project, and *very* cool IMO.
@misty aaaaaa I'm so happy internet archive did manage to grab a snapshot of this. I assume that's where the screenshot actually comes from, too (December 1996): https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzahut.com/
@zkat Yep! I generated it via oldweb.today, which lets you browse the wayback machine (or live websites) using a bunch of emulated old browsers. https://oldweb.today
@misty omg yes
@misty I remember cloudflare inserting [email protected] into pages in 1996...
@misty Just seeing the SCO logo sent me on a very vivid trip down memory lane. Wow.
@misty Back when websites had to load in a reasonable time frame on a 9600 baud modem.
optimized PNG/GIFs
typically ~25KB all in with graphics and html... <3
@mbpaz @kajer Web browsers started to support it by 1997! But yeah, this is NCSA Mosaic in 1996, so definitely no PNG on this page. Looks like it's a GIF. https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205202/http://www.pizzahut.com/images/phlogo.gif