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Comment by mchaver | Hacker News Reader

Let's collect all the internet's historical pizza moments. I've collected a few from the comments here and added a few.

- 1990, Don Hopkins uses the PizzaTool to fax a pizza order.

- 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.

- 1994, Pizza Hut's Pizza Net allows users in Santa Cruz to order pizza.

- May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz buys two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins (valued at around 30 USD at the time).

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2005, Everquest adds /pizza to begin the pizza ordering process from in-game http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7020132/ns/technology_and_science-...

> May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz buys two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins (valued at around 30 USD at the time).

10,000 BTC = 63,317,800 GBP or 82,204,100 USD as of 2019-10-21 at 16:00 UTC

A lot of pizza these days.

And bitcoin is very far from its historical max

I wonder if Pizza Hut still owns those 10k BTC they bought for the price of two pizzas?

If I remember correctly he traded the BTC to another user who then put the pizzas on his credit card

And it was Papa Johns, not Pizza Hut.

IIRC, the transaction was between two people; Pizza Hut didn't touch any Bitcoin.

2004, a perl script pizza_party is published allowing to buy pizza from the command line. I think it was even in some distros' package managers for a while.

Slashdot discussion: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/05/07/138238/piz...

Archive of project homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20040508090713/http://www.beiger...

1999, i-Opener internet appliance released with pizza key on keyboard.

https://www.salon.com/2000/07/12/i_opener/

2 Photos: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/28dfsj...

my favorite 'we charge $99 for $500 of hardware, and make it up in volume' .com scam

you can add the emergence of Lightning Network Pizza for your 2019 entry: https://ln.pizza

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