How NOT to use the World Wide Web!
03 December 2002, 07:52 PM
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...by of all folks, the masters or marketing, McDonalds themselves!
So you eat your quarter-pounder with cheese meal (super-sized) and spot a competition.
Firstly you tear apart you diet-coke container to reveal a secret code that has to be typed into a web-site to see it you have won.
This is www.itv.com/popstars but it actually gets re-directed to http://www.popstarsonline.net/.
Amongst all the bollox is an advert for MaccyDees containing the words "POP&TXT", so another click here takes you to http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/popstars/.
After typing in your "secret code", e-mail address, date of birth and bank PIN number (ok, i was kidding about the PIN
) it then fails miserably with some coding error.
Running Windows software is bad enough, without the Internet (which used to be fairly reliable running UNIX and VMS etc) itself now being a pain as well as crapping out all the time.
The kids of today must be scared of crossing the road - not because Tufty might get upset, but in case the tarmac blue-screens!!!
McDonalds - decent burgers but crap softare!!!!
mb
So you eat your quarter-pounder with cheese meal (super-sized) and spot a competition.
Firstly you tear apart you diet-coke container to reveal a secret code that has to be typed into a web-site to see it you have won.
This is www.itv.com/popstars but it actually gets re-directed to http://www.popstarsonline.net/.
Amongst all the bollox is an advert for MaccyDees containing the words "POP&TXT", so another click here takes you to http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/popstars/.
After typing in your "secret code", e-mail address, date of birth and bank PIN number (ok, i was kidding about the PIN
) it then fails miserably with some coding error.Running Windows software is bad enough, without the Internet (which used to be fairly reliable running UNIX and VMS etc) itself now being a pain as well as crapping out all the time.
The kids of today must be scared of crossing the road - not because Tufty might get upset, but in case the tarmac blue-screens!!!
McDonalds - decent burgers but crap softare!!!!
mb
04 December 2002, 10:28 AM
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i won a game off donalds website but dont like football so not much use to me.
2002 fifa world cup
lol
ps burgers taste nice after a night out but after eating big mac meal had to have donner and chips to fill me up
2002 fifa world cup
lol
ps burgers taste nice after a night out but after eating big mac meal had to have donner and chips to fill me up
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