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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by macintux on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:40AM (#18229722)
> The opening scene of her ordering pizza online was such a leap of faith for people at the time.

In 1994, when the Internet was opening to commercial use, someone gave a demo at my university of a pizza ordering system. I thought to myself it would never work, because all the stores would need to be wired up, and how was that going to happen?

I've been wrong about technology far, far more often than not.

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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by _mdpn on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:12AM (#18230020)
The stores wouldn't even need to be wired up to the Internet. All they would need is a call center to dispatch pizza orders to the stores or a fax machine if they wanted to dispatch orders without a voice call, both mature, widely deployed tech at the time.
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by macintux on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:08PM (#18230503)
Yep, I later realized that flaw in my skepticism. In fact I had done some delivery from a store that used a call center, so it should have been obvious.
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