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Available services in early/mid-90s

posted 16 years ago by Cinema1988
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-I'm watching this for the first time now and I was wondering because I don't remember as I was 7 when this movie came out and we didn't have a computer yet. But were their services around in 94/95 that allowed you to buy airline tickets online and order pizzas online? It seems Dominoe's just started doing online ordering around 2007/2008 and I had never heard of it before then. Then again I've seen commericals for the early Apple computers of the 80s and they were advertising paying bills online/via computer. Does anyone recall using these services in the early/mid 90s? Also, when she was online on the beach with her laptop, how was she using the internet, did they have wireless in '95, when did that come around? I was born in '88 so wouldn't remember that well if some of these things were around as we didn't get a home computer with Internet until mid '98. I'd used it before then, but wasn't completely familiar with it until we really had our own computer.

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[–] Superman_Is_Not_Depressed 14 years ago

I've been ordering papa johns pizza since about 05 or 06 I guess. Dominos needs to get their asses in gear.

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[–] fredm74 14 years ago

I am learning something new, I could have sworn e-commerce didn't start booming until the early 2000's. Ordering pizza and groceries in the mid-90's just seems like a foreign concept to me. I remember signing up for email (AOL and Yahoo) in the late 90's (97-98). Sending my first email back then was like such a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 14 years ago

"Ordering pizza and groceries in the mid-90's just seems like a foreign concept to me."

Remember, she was a professional programmer in Silcon Valley or Redmond or Route 128 or one of those areas (I forget which now). What was available in those corridors wasn't necessarily available in the rest of the country.

[–] dragoncane 14 years ago

I still can't order Domino's on the internet to deliver to my address. Stupid!!

[–] Phil Littleriver 14 years ago

She wasn't online in the beach scene, she specifically mentions how she'd like somewhere to plug her modem into.

[–] The_ApprenticeUK 14 years ago

On the making of the DVD the director said they did a lot of research and the websites, systems in this movie will be about in the future but a lot of them are not present at the time.

[–] Mrpinkeye 14 years ago

she never mentions wifi on the beach!!! however she does say "wheres the nearest place i can plug in my modem" so if she had a long enough cable its possible :p

[–] hawkofmay67 9 years ago

I went online in 96, possibly late 95, soon after Windows 95 came out in August of that year. I had different modems at the time (internal/external). One I recall was the US Robotics 56k X2 modem that I could call a special number that my ISP (Visinet) provided to get extra speed. I used IE and Netscape. It was very slow and when games like Ultima Online came out in 97 it was almost unplayable at times. When Cox first came out with the 5mbit cable modem in 1998 I got it. A lot of people were still on dial up and I got a lot of "nice pings" in online games like I was cheating or something, lol. Just technology...

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[–] primium_mobile 9 years ago

Pizza Hut claims to have taken the first online order for pizza, and that was in 1994. You people are really funny with all of your selective memories about this. The movie did have some technology and uses of technology that were cutting edge back then, but none of it was anything that didn't already exist - other than all the stuff that hackers could supposedly do - like hack the navigation system of a Cessna.

And no one with a cell phone needed a WiFi network to go online.

[–] krispykremekiller 8 years ago

I was on the internet that time, starting probably around 1991/1992. That was pre-WWW, there were other services though like Usenet (threaded conversation like this), Gopher (sort of a pre-www text based hyperlink system), FTP, etc. You could have certainly ordered products or airfare using a front-end like Prodigy or Compuserve back then. I ordered hot sauces off of a www site in 1994. The internet was a sort of wild wild west for geeks back then. Average people did not know how to use it or know of it. It was very much a text-based world and required high levels of computer savvy/geekdom to get into it.

As for the beach, she was working offline. People did that then, and even now. Wifi wasn't an integrated feature in laptops then, though modems (and wires) were.