March 2, 2004 will be a special day for the folks at Yahoo. It is hard to believe they have really been around for ten years. Makes me feel like an old man! Well, that would have made me 12 years old when they got started up. They have come a long way though. From their own start up to swallowing other companies left and right, nobody can doubt that Yahoo has left their mark on the industry.

The most interesting note I have ran across so far talking about the anniversary is this. Yahoo is also inviting all registered users in the United States to download a coupon for a free scoop of ice cream on March 2 from Baskin-Robbins in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Free ice cream for all!

It’s not that Yang and Filo don’t like to have fun. After all, they gave their company a name often associated with rubes and adopted a joyful yodel as their calling card.

“We were certainly not sophisticated or civilized,” Yang joked during an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the March 2 anniversary of Yahoo’s inception.

What separated Yahoo’s creators from the rest of the dot-com crowd was their desire to create a profitable business as quickly as possible — a contrarian concept back in those days of economic delirium.

The philosophy enabled Yahoo to begin making money in less than 10 months, and also fueled the Sunnyvale-based company’s resounding comeback from the dot-com bust that obliterated hundreds of other Internet businesses.

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