Category: Year 2K Bug
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Golden Marketing Opportunities
From the Business Journal serving San Jose and Silicon Valley, December 17, 1999, Strategies, page 29 (Click the image to open it. Scroll down for the transcribed text) Golden Marketing Opportunities Companies capitalize on Y2K, millennium publicity By Sarah Hazelwood, Business Journal staff writer. Not all Y2K news is bad news. When the Silicon Valley…
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Edible Bugs
Excerpt from “Latest Scoop” by Janice Wald Henderson, Chocolatier Magazine, November 1999, page 9. (Click the image to open it. Scroll down for the transcribed text) Edible Bugs The only Y2K bugs I’m interested in are the ones I eat. No, my taste buds aren’t weird. I just have a fixation for the Year 2K…
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Y2K Bug Invades San Francisco International Gift Fair
Media Contacts: Rich Yacco, SVC2(408) 272-1167rich@svc2.com David Knudsen, Knudsen’s Candy(510) 293-6887david@knudsens.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 6, 1999 Y2K Bug Invades San Francisco International Gift Fair San Francisco, Calif. – A chocolate incarnation of the computer problem known as the Y2K Bug is invading the San Francisco International Gift Fair® August 7 through 11 at the Moscone…
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Devouring the Y2K Bug
From PR Week, August 2, 1999. (Click the image to open it. Scroll down for the transcribed text) PR Week New Product Devouring the Y2K Bug By Aimee Grove Client: Knudsen’s Candy (Hayward, CA) and Silicon Valley Confection. PR Team: In-House and Attention Business Communications (Pleasanton, CA) Campaign: Y2K Chocolate Bug Debut. Time Frame: May…
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New Candy Creations
From CBS This Morning website, June 28, 1999. (Click the image to open it. Scroll down for the transcribed text) Y2K BUG ($5) This milk chocolate candy bar shaped like a ladybug is from Silicon Valley Confection. It has raised Y2K letters on its back. The clever slogan for this candy is, “Eat it while…
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There are chocolate-covered ants, so why not chocolate Y2K bugs?
From the San Jose Mercury News, June 24, 1999. (Click the image to open it. Scroll down for the transcribed text) Thursday, June 24, 1999 San Jose Mercury News Silicon Valley Life Mike Cassidy Silicon Valley Dispatches “There are chocolate covered ants so why not chocolate Y2K bugs?” We’ve all heard it. Silicon Valley streets…
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1999 Year 2K Bug in Stores
By June 14, 1999 the Year 2K Bug was being manufactured and distributed for Silicon Valley Confection Company by Knudsen’s Candy. Click on an image to zoom in.
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Silicon Valley Life
From the San Jose Mercury News, Friday,June 11, 1999 (Click the image to open it. Scroll down for the transcribed text) Silicon Valley Life Lee Weimers Then there’s Silicon Valley Confection Company, which is dealing with the Y2K bug problem by bringing out, you guessed it, a ladybug-shaped chocolate bar labeled Y2K. They’re available now…
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Y2K Bug Fixes
From The Argus of Fremont, Newark and Union City, California Thursday June 10, 1999 (Click the image to open it.)
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The Official Candy of Y2K
From Y2Kculture.com, June 7, 1999. (Click the image to open it. Scroll down for the transcribed text) y2kculture.com The Official Candy of Y2K by Declan McCullagh June 7, 1999 What is it with the year 2000 in chocolate? First we saw M&Ms and Mars duking it out for the honor of being the official candy…