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by CalChris 2502 days ago
xcostena. It was an X application written at SGI which took an order and faxed it to La Costena, a taqueria on Rengstorff (at the time). It might have been the first case of e-commerce on the internet and this was pre-web.
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kijiki 2502 days ago
La Costena is still around, it just moved further down Middlefield towards Sunnyvale, right before Ellis.

Sun had a similar app that would fax orders to Tony and Alba's pizza, though that closed a few years ago.

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CalChris 2501 days ago
Yeah, tatool.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems...

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