August 13, 2012
5 years of Boiledbeans!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Boiledbeans turned 5 years old today! It has been a super amazing experience for the two of us and we have enjoyed every bit of it, thanks to the awesome community we have here.
We covered memes before they were annoying, we covered XKCD before it was famous and we knew about moot before everyone. We have covered so many topics on BB that these days, it takes us a good amount of searching before we can get to a “good” question.
5 years ago, iPhone had just launched, Facebook was “small“, MySpace was popular, the Poincare conjecture was still unproven!
So, 5 years is no short time and you have kept us running for so long! Your awesomeness has no limits!
Here are some of the things we have done:
One post every day with atleast one question. without fail for 5 years!

of which

and

including theme rounds, treasure hunts, puzzles…
Which contained…

On which you posted

and we automatically had..

And all this has been possible because of our

Of whom, more than 1300 people have more than 1 point.
I am so happy and excited that I can go on writing about the awesome stuff we have done. But I will only put one last thing here, and that is

We have some interesting announcements coming up, so stay tuned. Here is our first ever logo
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Bon(g)us question for the day: Website X started out as a free web-space provider for the founder’s classmates. Later completely transformed into a blog. Which website? What did it transform into?
Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R , mankuTimma , Sumanth Patlolla and Anjul
Answer:
Boiledbeans!

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Keep them coming..
Also, is the answer for the bogus question boiledbeans.net :P
Keep ‘em coming and wish you all the very best for days ahead :-)
Answer for the bon(g)us question : Boiledbeans!? :D
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to you, devdutta and srikanth … for your persevearance and for providing us with rich dose of quizzing DAY IN and DAY OUT …
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5! Awesome job! congratulations guys :-)
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Facebook
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it’s the poincare conjecture. not bloody conjuncture.
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@blah: Thanks for the correction. I can understand why you got so frustrated..
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Congrats to everyone. Quite an achievement!!!
Just checked to find that I made a reference to Boiled Beans on my blog on 16th December, 2007. I think I started dropping in here about a month or two before that. Gosh, time flies.
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We love BoiledBeans
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Congrats to everyone on BB.
How about the quiz-masters get some cake for all of us? :)
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