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Yahoo Turns 10; Free Ice Cream for America
indiejade writes "It was 10 years ago today that Yahoo was born in a trailer outside Stanford University. Joining the celebration is Baskin Robbins, which is serving up a free scoop of ice cream in honor of the day Yahoo began climbing the ranks from its humble beginning. Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo joined CEO Terry Semel to kick off the stock market opening bell this morning. The Birthday Boys claim that they are happy with the steady growth of their company, and expressed no regrets for their "once upon a time" decision to fund Google. "Competition is good," they said prior to the opening bell this morning."
That's what they should call it, but it sounds like a Jewish expression meaning a cock up...
Let's see if we can slashdot baskin-robins!
free as in ice cream!
you heard it here first
Never ask for directions from a two-headed tourist! -Big Bird
So uhhhh... What flavors do you guys recommend from Baskin Robbins?
Ice cream?!?! It's like 4 degrees outside!! How about some hot chocolate Baskin Robbins?!
I like Carvel... mmmmm soft...
This
Does anyone else remember when you went to Yahoo, and it said "Powered by Google?"
Boy, I loved Yahoo back then. I suppose I stopped using Yahoo as my search engine when that message went away. If Yahoo had used its internet portal identity with Google's search capabilities, they would've been an unstoppable Juggernaut.
But I suppose Google will do that by itself now.
You people have killed the web page! :(
Now I'll never find out how to get free ice cream.
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
yeah, there's nothing better than eating icecream when its below freezing :-)
Damien
Yahoo!'s 10th birthday is today. To celebrate, they're giving away... a scoop of ice cream, courtesy of Baskin Robbins.
Link: Baskin Robbins Yahoo! page (link will only work today)
I don't know about the rest of the country, but right now in Dallas it's 45 degrees.
Was this a promotion cooked up by Baskin Robbins to boost sales during a slow month? Does anyone else think this is weird?
Added by WebProNews Editor ...
Here's what the splash page (linked above) says:
Yahoo! Turns 10 Today!
"You may find our celebratory tune hard to resist since it's our birthday, but you get the present. Today only, March 2, 2005, as a registered Yahpp! user, you can get one scoop (2.5 oz..) of your favorite Basikin-Robbins' ice cream in a cup or a cone on us. Simply sign in, download your coupon, then head out to the party.
Availabale at over 3,423 select Baskin-Robbins locations throughout the world!"
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.
http://www.baskinrobbins.com/index.shtml/
When I searched google to find info on Yahoo's funding of google,(I typed in "google yahoo") the first result I got was google.yahoo.com, wich is odd. The site doens't work by the way.. Anybody care to explain how that can be?
here is the link to the coupon: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday /
there's no such thing as free ice cream. just remember that.
I'm sure Yahoo must have SOME regrets after seeing how successful Google has become, and it's definitely taking traffic away from their own search engine. Anyone worth their salt on the internet has used Google at least once or uses it daily. Yahoo can't be happy about that. But they're moving in the right direction with free ice cream, can't beat that.
One scoop?
I read
has yahoo ever posted a profit in its 10 years? From RTFA it says yahoo is worth $44 billion and last year sales were $3.6 billion, it makes no mention of any profit though which leads me to the conclusion that either
a) the profits really aren't that spectatular
b) they don't make any profit
Well, looks like I'm not getting my free scoop. Walmart has run Baskin Robins out of town.
After shoveling 10" of wet, heavy snow.
EOM
...it could be -10 C or colder outside, and you'll still see people outside, eating ice cream. It's just soooo good!
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
I emailed the on-duty editor about this, but apparently it didn't get there in time.
The article actually says:
"My guess is that they will do a good job," Semel said of Microsoft's increasing emphasis on search engine technology. "I welcome that. It's good to have good competition."
Perhaps another source indicates that Yang and Filo don't regret funding Google. But, it isn't cited here.
Indeed,there is no such thing as free ice cream. Ya's gots ta register with Baskin Robins, w/ email, address, etc.
Yes, but the fact they are offering free ice cream warrants another story!
We can let them off this time.
Does BR have soy ice cream? I'm cutting dairy out of my diet (milk is BAD FOR YOU) and having an alternative would be great.
The linked story announced that the birthday was coming up, this one says that today is the birthday and has more information.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
What about the Irish Users...,
They better be giving out free B33R to the Irish Loyal Users...Damn US getting IceCream., we need free BeeR.., or all of Ireland will Boycot Yahoo ;)
The ice cream is only free if the time it takes you to get to the store is worth nothing.
--
the strongest word is still the word "free"
Never it is too cold to eat ice cream. Never.
Wow. On my 21st birthday I get free Ice Cream just for sharing a birthday with Yahoo.
:p
Life truly is wonderful.
Baskin Robbins
The Birthday Boys
-Ares
Ice Cream sucks! Don't eat it! It's full of poisson!
We could use some free ice cream too, here in Russia.. But no, as always with nice free cheesy stuff, like ipods or icecream or whatever, it's US only ;)
Why bother getting the free scoop? Free crap is still crap...
My homemade ice cream kicks Baskin Robbins' ass any day....
Mango ice cream (you need an ice cream maker for this)
300 g. pureed flesh of honey mango
90 g. sugar
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 dl cream, whipped until almost stiff
2 dl whole milk (lowfat is OK)
1 egg yolk
Mix all ingredients except cream together. Fold in cream, blend well. Chill mixture according to ice cream maker's instructions. This will take around 40 minutes.
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
There is no Baskin Robins I knows of in Wisconsin... well in Madison... that sucks!!!
...not that it's symbolic or anything.
Ballmer would get canned for saying something like this.
Make sure everyone's vote counts: Verified Voting
Or is this for our friends in the bottom half of this planet?
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
Why do companies like yahoo and msn continue to fund their search engine initiatives? I know that they want to kick google to the curb for search engine mindshare, but it's not happening. If you run a website, take a look at your stats. Mine are roughly 99% google and 1% is made up from yahoo, msn and the others.
I think the search engines are primarily a vehicle to bring traffic to their sites, and intersperse some ads in the mix. The cost of ads, being driven by the number of views, can't be all that large of a revenue stream for yahoo et. al., at least as far as the search engine is concerned.
Am I missing something?
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
I'm really enjoying this so called... iced cream!
Unfortunately, the coupons are generated dynamically, to include your name. I suppose the pseudonym I chose for Yahoo, "Some guy" wasn't the best choice: "Some Guy is joining Yahoo!'s 10th birthday fun..."
Robert Bindler
A Computer Science student's views on technology.
Folks in Anchorage, Alaska consume more ice cream per capita than anywhere else in the USA. Cold? COLD? You ain't got a clue what cold is!
In Soviet Russia, ice cream freezes YOU!
I think they have each other on ignore... they are duping each other... today taco is duping zonk.. yesterday zonk was duping taco...
noone at slashdot reads slashdot...
Slashdot (Score:-5, Redundant)
has anyone seen the yahoo page from '95!?! http://www.yahoo.com/_ylh=X3oDMTEwdnZjMjFhBF9TAzI3 MTYxNDkEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtY3Nz/s/231504
Full of fish? Maybe you're thinking of something else.
for those of us without fridges, winter is the only time we can have ice cream... plus, you need the extra calories this time of year!
I don't know about the rest of the country, but right now in Dallas it's 45 degrees.
Most of the rest of the country would give their left nut for that temperature.
I don't keep a lid on my coffee so when I walk around I look busy -me
Im Don't know if i can support this
On one side its sure to gain Yahoo alot of goodwill , also hopefully increase the sharevalue.
On the other hand , i live nowhere near a baskin robins and really want an icecream
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Man, 1995... I still remember being awed by the way that places like yahoo.com and hotwired.com looked in Netscape (was 2.0 even out yet? I forget, heh), compared to what I was used to before that (stuff like pine or gopher running on green-screen terms). I was 16 at the time, in college a couple of years early, and looking back (20/20 hindsight and all that), I wish I'd taken the hint on my early fascination and gone into programming/web-related studies and jobs then instead of chemistry... I guess I felt obligated to pursue a "real job" like chemistry. Here, ten years later, I'm a programmer and chemistry is just sort of my side hobby. I wonder sometimes what my life would have been like had I gotten into CS and gone into the IT workforce by '97-'98 instead of picking it up as hobby later and entering the IT workforce right before the bust.
Anyway, for some good nostalgia, here you go:
Archive of old versions of Netscape back to 1.1 days on multiple platforms
Wayback machine link for Yahoo! front page, late 1996 (hotwired.com excludes wayback, darn it... i recall it being visually louder than a hawaiian shirt on fire. the current wired.com is actually subdued compared to what I recall it being)
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
Using Yahoo to search for "google": 134,000,000 for google Using Google to search for "yahoo": 128,000,000 for yahoo Using Yahoo to search for "yahoo":240,000,000 Using Google to search for "google": 215,000,000
A large number of slashdotters won't fit through the door.
Where's the "+1, Yummy" mod when you need it.. ;)
No unauthorized use. Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
I tried to do a bit more scientific survey than yours when MSN search came out and I was stuck on a VBA/Access project. I used Google, MSN search and Yahoo to find answers to my frustrations with the gui wonder.
I figured, at least in this narrow field MS would trounce the competition. It didn't.
More suprisingly, Google's results weren't much better. Of the three, I found the best information through Yahoo by roughly 75%! Trailing far behind was Google (it referenced to many expertsexchange crud)...
suprisingly MS was a poor reference for it's own products. Which I am guessing shows that it is trying to be a real search engine and not just a marketing machine.
Exactly. For free food /. can dupe all day long!
Fine Print:
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Limit one coupon per customer, where supplies last, or for the first 300 coupons presented for redemption at each store.
FYI
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"Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!"
"Hey, you got peanut butter in my chocolate!"
Hey, you got Google in my Yahoo
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Limit one coupon per customer while supplies last, or for the first 300 coupons presented for redemption at each store, whichever is less. Good only at participating continentals U.S. stores.
... so reading that, if more than 300 people actually redeem this, I'm out? I have to pay tax on it if I try to eat in the place? Of course, they can choose to not participate as well.
Consumer may pay applicable tax.
I'm going here tonight with my girlfriend for free ice cream. If they don't honor my coupon, I'm kicking them in the jimmy.
sounds like work to me.
--
the strongest word is still the word "free"
I'm not sure why anyone would question this. It's common practice for companies to invest in competitors to ensure their future existance. The logic being that the dominate company knows the sector will succeed and so it invests in up and coming companies in the sector knowing that if the newcomer takes the sector as google has they will still have a (usually sizable) intrest in the sector. Think of it as insurance or hedging. It's a good idea.
-3cents
That Yahoo is worth twice as much as General Motors. What did yahoo do that's so great. I mean look at how they looked in 95.
http://promo.yahoo.com/birthday10/incorporation/
It's just a bunch of links. I thought they'd die after the bubble burst, but
I guess you can never underestimate the power of being first.
Here's the title on the article:
Weird? Baskin Robbins Celebrates Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday...
But the TITLE on my browser reads
Weird Baskin Robbins Celebrates Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Baskin Robins still exists? Go figure...
"How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)
You caught that one!
Did anyone else read the site linked to as web pron ews instead of web pro news. I was kind of scared to click on that.
and what do they do, again?
There is a fascinating interview of Filo and Yang dated 5/23/1995 that offers some interesting historical tidbits about the company. Here is the link: http://www.sun.com/950523/yahoostory.html
In that 1995 interview, the duo proudly claimed having 250,000 users. Today, that number is a "pathetic" 345 million.
For two geeks from Stanford, they've done well, wouldn't you agree?
Sun and Fun
I picked a hell of a year to give up sweet stuff for Lent.
http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday /
This is my signature.
The Baskins Robbins Link is /.'ed. Who woulda thunk it?
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
Actually, the free ice cream is available at any Baskin-Robbins, not just ones in the US. There aren't any in Russia I'm afraid, but there are in Canada, Korea, Britain, Australia, Puerto Rico...
Take off every sig. For great justice.
French fish???
"I'm really enjoying the so-called 'iced - cream' " - Mr. Burns
Baskin Robins does this once a year (and some of the other chains like Ben & Jerry's does it too).
They're just using Y! as an excuse to get more publicity (read free advertising) out of it.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
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I remember sitting in the Comp lab thinking, "wow" the Yahoo thing is kinda cool, alot like Gopher.
Good times...
"Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
Homogenized particles (homogenized down to the point where body can't get rid of it so sticks it in the arteries? or is there Hydrogenated "_______" ? (fill in the blank.. if it is hydrogenated then it is basically like poison to your body)
When eBay turns 10, I predict they'll offer a scoop of off-brand ice cream for $0.01, but charge $8.95 for shipping and handling via sugarcone.
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
The coupon printed out in a full page of color. Having just bought an HP color cartridge, I'm wondering if it just isn't cheaper to buy the ice cream directly.
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There's some frame printing issue. Sigh.
Of course it's the best time for eating an icecream cone. That's when it doesn't melt and drip all over your hand.
Stop taking that "there are no women on /." myth too seriously...
Oh, and I'm an American living in Europe...
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!
Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad.
Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: [worried] That's bad.
Owner: But you get your choice of topping!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate.
Homer: [stares]
Owner: That's bad.
Homer: [worried] Can I go now?
I used to like Google search a lot , because when one would do a search they would offer a similar page choice that meant from other site answers and also a link to the directory category.
Now Google search dont do that anymore but the new yahoo search does it.
I am a REAL American from Canada , not a wanna-be from the country , self called "last remaining superpower" "of America
Does Baskin Robbins have any organic ice cream? If not, then I'll have to pass..
They're still around?
I remember my first experience with Yahoo, back in Fall, 1994. My Classics professor asked for help in locating a popular Classics mailing list she'd heard about. A friend showed me Yahoo, and I found the Bryn Mawr listserv within minutes. It was kind of disorienting, since I couldn't quite wrap my head around where this information was coming from!
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
Yahoo has a great listing with descriptions of 100 net events since yahoo!'s inception:
http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
As Napoleon would say "Sweet!"
29292 bytes of line noise.
Store bought sugar is highly pre-processed and synthetic, your body cannot deal with it unless it first reconstitutes the sugar by depleting nutrients from your body to actually digest it. Sugar is really like a negative nutrient wise, same with modern highly processed flour. Calories are units of energy representing how much it takes to make 1 gram of water rise in temperature one degree centigrade. Wood has calories and just like sugar it has little nutritional value. All calories measure is how much energy something will give off when burned.
Boy, I loved Yahoo back then. I suppose I stopped using Yahoo as my search engine when that message went away. If Yahoo had used its internet portal identity with Google's search capabilities, they would've been an unstoppable Juggernaut.
While almost all the other .com's were .bombing, Yahoo very quietly amassed an enormous portfolio of once high-flying search engines [on pennies to the dollar, compared to their pre-crash values]:
So I wouldn't count them out just yet.Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed it until it got to the highly technical discussion near the last few lines of the page. It is amazing that their glorified bookmarks list did become so popular, and that they had the foresight to ditch the Masters in EE to become the leading index on the WWW.
Just print off 5 coupons and take them to different stores and you can get yourself a lot more free scoops.
Happy Birthday Yahoo!
Oh wait, thats right, the editors just post whatever they're paid to post.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Mod parent down.
I tried this right after reading the post above.
The bastard called the cops on me!!!
Maybe he heard "I'm looking for 12 yr old girls today", instead of "Its my 21st birthday today"..
Also, having a bit more hair and less of the bald spot would have helped..Crap!
Rapid Nirvana
who the hell wants ice cream now?
-Cnik
The idoit behind the counter told me i made this up, and wouldn't give me my ice cream; i really wanted ice cream. I went else where. They just lost my businness for life
Store-bought sugar is just purified sucrose, composed of glucose and fructose. It is natural, but is stripped of other trace nutrients during refinement. It's basically harmless in moderation, and, you have to admit, good cookies cannot be made without it.
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
"Sorry, but they didn't tell us about it," the woman at the counter said when I presented my print-out. Everyone here, call ahead to see whether or not your BR is participating in this.
As for me, since Dunkin Donuts is the same company as BR, I'm taking my business to Krispy Kreme and Cold Stone Cremery instead.
"Anonymous Coward" is for whistleblowers, not unpopular opinions.
"Muahahahaaa... We'll serve them FREE ice cream in the COLDEST month of the yeaaarrrr!"
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
I forgot the reason, but Baskin Robbins offered free ice cream sometime last year. The line for ice cream went around the building. It's not worth the wait.
The obligatory Google fanboy post whenever Yahoo is mentioned is as about as insightful as BSD Is Dying.
Their ownership started out as 2%, went down slightly due to some stock sales, but still over 1% I believe. This is stated in documents of both companies.
Boo hoo! I can't eat free ice cream because its cold out!
Here's the link so you don't have to put your name into the Yahoo/Baskin Robbins mailing list...
Get your anonymous coupon here.
Should print a coupon with the words "Yahoo Fan".
They owned 2% of GOOG when it went public and have been happily selling the shares at ridiculously inflated prices.
...and a free extended middle finger to France!
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
This link didn't work. Although the coupon showed up for a brief instant, the page immediately refreshed to the front page which requires you to login or register.
Perhaps they're tracking the referrer.
A yahoo seach for:
yahoo 10th birthday baskin robbins giveaway
gives no valid results.
The same search on google returns a link to a news story about the giveaway on motley fool as the top result.
Amusingly, my first thought on reading this, after "I have no idea where Baskin-Robbins is around here" was to go to Google maps.
Damnit, why don't you bastards mirror this "yahoo.com" before linking to it!? Now these poor saps are going to get reamed by their ISP...
The cake is a pie
Read the fine print in the coupon!
:(
"Consumer must pay applicable tax." Not really free.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I totally walked past the birthday part. Do you have to belt out "Yahoo...oooooh" to get the scoop?
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
Don't sing that song unless your are licensed!
That was yummy. My entire family got free ice cream today. While we were there, everyone who came in handed over coupons. Not even one person pulled out their wallet or purse.
Edward Burr
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
(.)(.)
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
...is actually a pretty good ice cream shop. Most of us don't have an ice cream maker, and the vast majority are far too lazy to actually make the stuff, and we'd probably screw it up if we did.
Want to come over and make me some?
Didn't think so.
BR is certainly better than Marble Slab and Coldstone. (The stone ends up re-freezing the ice cream. Yum, ice crystals.) Ben & Jerry's and Hagen-Dazs are better, since they use a "full-fat" recipe (which is pretty much what it sounds like...they use about twice as much milkfat.) Free BR is not something I'll turn down.
I like sharing it with Dr. Seuss, Gorby, Jon Bon Jovi.
It's also TX independence day (where I was born!)
happy birthday to me (and Yahoo!)
When travelling, it's ok if the airlines lose your emotional baggage.
Childhood of Web
No pop-ups, spam, or adware
I'll have vanilla
Dude, check this description out!
Tin Roof Sundae
Vanilla flavored no sugar added lowfat ice cream with choco peanuts and a nsa chocolate ribbon.
An NSA chocolate ribbon? Holy crap, the feds have infiltrated the HerseyNestleGhiraldi triumvirate and are implanting secret fluoride mind control drugs in our ice cream!
It's time to get our own tin roofs and shield our heads from the mind-control laser satellites that will activate the fluoride encoded commands in our food supply by wrapping a protective high-albedo layer of aluminium foil around our heads!
And, if you don't believe all of this, then you're obviously educated stupid.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
1) Go into joint Baskin-Robins / ToGo's / Dunkin Donuts store.
2) Get your favorite chocolatey ice cream for free.
3) Place in coffee cup.
4) Ask clerk at Duncan Donuts / ToGo's part of store to microwave free ice cream for 2-3 minutes.
5) Pr..! I mean, drink and enjoy.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
someone worthwhile shares my birthday. Now, I'm off to baskin robbins.
I swear PowerPoint is going to be the downfall of higher education in western society.
try sending this in yahoo messenger.
d ay /
http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birth
your receipient won't get it
My coupon has my name in big print and my name in white lettering across it a couple places. If I make multiple prints of the same coupon will my family be able to get their scoops or do they need their own yahoo account so it has their names on their coupons?
As so eloquently expressed by Leeloo in The Fifth Element, "chicken good."
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
Somebody has to point out that the original Yahoo is a total failure, since a manually-maintained hierarchical web index just wasn't a good idea. Except that Yahoo managed to establish itself as a popular web "portal" before that fact became painfully obvious. So Filo and Yang are failures in the sense that their original project was a bad idea, but probably don't care, since they're both now multi-millionaires. Depressing how many people get rich through blind luck!
What did the email link do? I thought freemail came later?
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
fuvoo: watch something
Boy, the response to this around here was great. I walked into the nearest B & R (Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA) at 2 p.m., and before I had left 10 minutes later, the line was out the door. It seemed like half of Akamai was clutching their coupons and waiting in line. However, there was only one scooper on duty, so the line moved slowly.
Even with the line, Yahoo sure got their 10 minutes of good will. Was it worth it, though?
"It was 10 years ago today that Yahoo was born in a trailer outside Stanford University..."
And 55 years ago this week our 42 President, Bill Clinton, was born in a trailor somewhere in Arkansas...
The shopkeep refused to come up with the free ice cream because "the coupons weren't printed in color".
If the g'vt kept the data on you that google does you'd better believe you'd be calling it "doing evil"
anyone have a link to a google cache of the yahoo coupon? ;-)
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I live in Silicon Valley. Around 3 p.m., I took a break and headed for the nearest Baskin-Robbins. The proprietor had put up a sign saying they no longer honored the coupon. Why? It turns out that the offer is good for only the first 300 customers at any store. Then I realized, Yahoo's corporate offices are maybe 3 miles from here.
It took me half an hour, driving around in almost-rush-hour traffic, to find another Baskin-Robbins, another 15 minutes in line.
Crème brûlée ice cream. It was pretty good. Victory is sweet.
After you submit your information (city, e-mail, age, and birthdate) the site seems to require Flash to give you the coupon. So I tabled my Firefox and loaded the site in my IE (for which I have Flash 7 installed), afterwhich I encountered two bugs in the presentation of the Flash coupon. (1) It flashed to the screen and immediately redirected back to the first page of the coupon process; navigating back with the browser reproduced the coupon flash and immediate redirect, but I was able to keep the coupon on the screen by disabling my ethernet before navigating back. (2) The send to local printer link within the Flash coupon brought up my print dialogues but then the job hung at my printer windows print queue; maybe I just needed to reset my printer, but I didn't test the Flash print again, and rather printed a screen grab of the Flash coupon after resetting the printer. Were these bugs due to peculiarities of my installations or be they slyly-crafted winks from Yahoo at the blight of Flash? Come on ice cream.
Ice-cream is cool, but only being able to get it one day is not!
Since it's only for the first 300 people, sure enough here in San Diego that had already happened, probably by the end of lunch hour. Went there after work and dozens upon dozens of people were walking up, coupons in hand, getting turned away.
Everyone was upset. LOTS of people. Most had not even read the fine print. This can't be good for either yahoo or baskin robbins. I'm tempted to send them an angry letter for wasting my time. And I WILL boycott...