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... that's according to CNet at least, who put it in their top 10 greatest defunct Web sites and dotcom disasters all time. That's not how I arrived here though; I actually stumbled across a news article on Beenz.com whilst flicking through a stack of Computer Active! magazines. Several fascinating rabbit holes followed which apparently led to a script, and then this video... So, let's see whether Beenz was really a dot com disaster or just a misunderstood platform, launched at the wrong time. I mean, take Bitcoin, well that turned to out be a hit didn't it? But digital currencies weren't so popular back in the youthful days of the internet. Beenz was one of these so called digital currencies, launching at the height of the .com bubble, and although it's very different to Bitcoin, it still had lofty goals, an excellent management team at the helm and a lot of real world money to try and make it a currency to dominate the internet. Of course, if you look closer, it looks more like a points, or rewards scheme than anything dramatic, but marketing is a wonderful thing, as is the internet.
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@petrolhead0387
@petrolhead0387 4 года назад
I can remember when I set up a computer for my grandparents. I showed them how to use Ask Jeeves, then google became more powerful. They refused to use google, so one day I blocked Ask Jeeves from their browser. They were stumped when it wouldn't load, I told them that Jeeves had died. They were absolutely mortified and even tried to send a condolences card to his family. They told their neighbor's that their friend in the internet had passed away, and nobody had the heart to tell them that he was about as real as the tooth fairy. It was the funniest and most horrible thing I had ever done in my life.
@THTB_lol
@THTB_lol Год назад
that's hillarious
@tonoornottono
@tonoornottono Год назад
you’re evil that’s so funny
@TopazTK
@TopazTK Год назад
I mean, Jeeves was real, kinda.
@Rhombusreal
@Rhombusreal Год назад
Idk maybe im a bit too empathetic but i just kinda feel like you were a dick to your grandparents for no reason
@petrolhead0387
@petrolhead0387 Год назад
@@Rhombusreal yeah I'm a dick. I only spend my time outside of work looking after them, getting their shopping, cleaning their house, helping my grandad in and out of the bath. Or using my personal leave to take them to their hospital appointments, I selfishly took a weekend away on holiday in 2016, but I've not been away since then, because I need to save all my leave for them, and if I don't it makes me a dick.
@gabrielkellar1935
@gabrielkellar1935 4 года назад
Imagine living in a world where the name of currency is beenz
@Marshtard
@Marshtard 4 года назад
**laughs in ToonTown Online**
@Funkoh
@Funkoh 4 года назад
*laughs in high school lunch trade*
@full-timepog6844
@full-timepog6844 4 года назад
Has beenz
@emmanuellopez3471
@emmanuellopez3471 4 года назад
Imagine living in a world owed by a entity named GUUGELE.
@cupcakethesabertooth6802
@cupcakethesabertooth6802 4 года назад
*B E E N Z*
@gioiacobucci
@gioiacobucci 4 года назад
Just when I got used to hearing “beenz”, they hit me with “flooz”
@bench3248
@bench3248 4 года назад
flooz gang ouuh
@mikevids8107
@mikevids8107 4 года назад
Just when I though I was out, they drag me back in.
@garf6394
@garf6394 4 года назад
Frick flooz all my homies hate flooz
@hourenschaiss2
@hourenschaiss2 4 года назад
In the moroccan dialect of arabic “ Fo'lou'ss فلوس “ pronounced "flooz" actually means "money".
@nothx2845
@nothx2845 4 года назад
@@hourenschaiss2 its nOt oNlY mOrRoCan 😡
@tnaz8280
@tnaz8280 4 года назад
"Do you take card?" "No, only beenz"
@RandomTRandomReal
@RandomTRandomReal 3 года назад
*b e e n z*
@Alibm80
@Alibm80 3 года назад
Oh no. I’ll find a grocery store and come back. 🙄
@tnaz8280
@tnaz8280 2 года назад
once again another unfunny comment that has come back to haunt me
@antidevgodot
@antidevgodot Год назад
@@tnaz8280 Lol
@Olflix
@Olflix 7 месяцев назад
And it will haunt you again 2 years later@@tnaz8280
@spartonberry
@spartonberry 4 года назад
"Are your friends worth 250 beenz?" A question we should ask ourselves each day.
@Walter_
@Walter_ 4 года назад
Depends on who you ask.
@32BitLink
@32BitLink 4 года назад
2.50 is a cheap price for people
@FiresplitterX
@FiresplitterX 4 года назад
I mean, if Mr. Krabs could sell Spongebob's soul for 62 cents, who am I to argue?
@Mikey-zk5wc
@Mikey-zk5wc 4 года назад
@@32BitLink hey, not in the 1800!
@wdfghjkl
@wdfghjkl 4 года назад
I been thinking bout thos beans
@KhaiJbach
@KhaiJbach 4 года назад
"today a Hacker stole 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 nectar points. Police are looking for a disappointed man with a small wine glass...."
@pikatheminecrafter
@pikatheminecrafter 4 года назад
Are you saying Nectar hyperinflated?
@justas423
@justas423 4 года назад
@@pikatheminecrafter dude that number is like a trillion. Definitely hyperinflation
@AbsoluteBarstool
@AbsoluteBarstool 4 года назад
500 quintillion Nectar Points really is a dream You could buy at least two bags of crisps with that
@Connotative
@Connotative 4 года назад
@@justas423 its 500 quintillion
@pikatheminecrafter
@pikatheminecrafter 4 года назад
@@Connotative it's 500 long trillion, but I don't think most people use long numbers.
@StoneWeevil
@StoneWeevil 4 года назад
My God look at all that late 90s web design It's beautiful
@Dainted9608
@Dainted9608 4 года назад
If beenz replaced PayPal I could just imagine a cashier saying “Would you like to pay in cash or card?” and then the costumer says “Sorry, but I use B E E N Z!” lol
@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo
I think the modern equivalent would be bitcoin
@cloudynguyen6527
@cloudynguyen6527 Год назад
Wait, you've never paid cash or card? Always has beenz
@yomama9390
@yomama9390 Год назад
@@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo no, it would not. bitcoin is its own trash
@endurodlapoczatkujacych4504
Deez beanz
@WhiteStripesStripiestFan
@WhiteStripesStripiestFan Год назад
Lmao the name choice for a revolutionary currency 🥲 smh
@RockandrollNegro
@RockandrollNegro 4 года назад
I had almost enough beenz to buy a Dreamcast. Then beenz went away and I had to use real money to buy a PS2.
@thefrostbro6319
@thefrostbro6319 4 года назад
same
@thefrostbro6319
@thefrostbro6319 4 года назад
how many beenz?
@kornsuwin
@kornsuwin 4 года назад
oof
@idiot7662
@idiot7662 4 года назад
rip
@sketchbookMonster
@sketchbookMonster 4 года назад
this is the most Year 2000 sentence on youtube i've seen
@blackoverblueskies6221
@blackoverblueskies6221 4 года назад
Beenz looks like an app that’ll make you fill out surveys
@KJ7QLV
@KJ7QLV 4 года назад
Didn't all apps look like that in 1999?
@ComradeTiki
@ComradeTiki 4 года назад
​@@KJ7QLV Hello, I'm from 1999. What's an app?
@blackoverblueskies6221
@blackoverblueskies6221 4 года назад
Kyle Freed I meant to write "Today's Beenz app"
@wolfzmusic9706
@wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад
Cythil pretty sure it was a joke
@Cythil
@Cythil 4 года назад
@@wolfzmusic9706 So was my lame response ;)
@DashingSteel
@DashingSteel 4 года назад
"This man of colour is investing in Beanz!"
@Jack-nn6gn
@Jack-nn6gn 4 года назад
"in a movie theater no less!!"
@Tauva
@Tauva 4 года назад
While watching the second installation in a trilogy of films about talking automobiles
@RabidlyTaboo
@RabidlyTaboo 4 года назад
"This woman of color is investing in flooz!" damn gender politics
@WonderfulBoness
@WonderfulBoness 4 года назад
@@RabidlyTaboo wot
@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929
@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 4 года назад
"This colored male of African descent is earning an online currency called beenz."
@hfontanez98
@hfontanez98 4 года назад
I am almost 52 years old. I've been using the Internet since 1991. How in the hell did I miss out on this?
@wilsonanderson1415
@wilsonanderson1415 Год назад
This might be one of the more obscure things that early internet had to offer. Either low bandwidth, living in developing country, or just rarely visiting the web might be the reason, since back then, Internet were more of a luxury than a necessity.
@theaznshadow
@theaznshadow 5 месяцев назад
Likely bcuz it was utter crap
@The_Soda_Man
@The_Soda_Man 4 года назад
The fact that it was called "Beenz" makes me want to throw a brick through a window.
@jermafan111
@jermafan111 4 года назад
You have earned 150 beenz for this comment.
@rainbowhat4990
@rainbowhat4990 4 года назад
beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz
@darkcoeficient
@darkcoeficient 4 года назад
Why throw a perfectly good brick when you can defenestrate a perfectly useless beenz?
@Dumb_Killjoy
@Dumb_Killjoy 4 года назад
@@darkcoeficient Been?
@dracenmarx
@dracenmarx 4 года назад
This is one of the best and most fitting comments I've ever seen, seriously!
@EmulsionTime
@EmulsionTime 4 года назад
"Beanz would get a lot of grief, even appearing in several lists of the greatest dotcom disasters, but honestly I don't think they deserve it." (video title "One of Greatest dotcom Disasters of all Time")
@olliegoria
@olliegoria 4 года назад
They didn’t deserve it, but it happened anyway.
@prof298
@prof298 4 года назад
He explains in the description that it's what the list he found called it.
@wulf7744
@wulf7744 4 года назад
@@prof298 its 2020 people are still reading the description?
@ryan-heath
@ryan-heath 4 года назад
AfroUchiha neither the video, only the comments.
@riplix20
@riplix20 4 года назад
@@wulf7744 its 2020 and people still don't read descriptions?
@tehbeanz5062
@tehbeanz5062 4 года назад
7:08 "le beenz" man dies of laughter in his house
@frstwhsprs
@frstwhsprs 19 дней назад
The 'le' brainrot is real 😂 My favorite type of brainrot back in the day!
@takemehome5749
@takemehome5749 4 года назад
this takes a whole new meaning for "me and the boys at 2 am looking for beenz"
@the-hd5cx
@the-hd5cx 4 года назад
What's your paypal bro? *SORRY I ONLY USE BEENZ*
@MegaIanlee
@MegaIanlee 4 года назад
@Rudy wyjaśnia mema 1.1k likes heh
@jazz21977
@jazz21977 4 года назад
I liked 404 better ;P
@cullbear55
@cullbear55 4 года назад
🅱️ E E N Z
@spythetired
@spythetired 4 года назад
@@cullbear55 y e s
@ZaHandle
@ZaHandle 4 года назад
Imperial Spy 🅱️ Y E S
@MisterSouji
@MisterSouji 4 года назад
I'm still waiting to trade my beenz in for that Dreamcast
@kittycat-sc7je
@kittycat-sc7je 4 года назад
*þat
@varikvalefor3773
@varikvalefor3773 4 года назад
kitty cat?: The thorn character is deprecated.
@electroflame6188
@electroflame6188 4 года назад
@@kittycat-sc7je */ðæʔ/
@Jivvi
@Jivvi 4 года назад
People still use words that contain it in phrases like "þe olde", but the usually misspell it "ye olde" (ye is the plural of you; þe is an alternate spelling of the). so… :-þ
@varikvalefor3773
@varikvalefor3773 4 года назад
Jivan Scarano: "Thee" and "thou" are singular, and "you" and "ye" are plural.
@LoopyLongplays
@LoopyLongplays 4 года назад
Me - How much is that book? Fred & George - 100 Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
@gabrielrobinson1279
@gabrielrobinson1279 3 года назад
Yes of course my brain still remembers this game from nearly 2 decades ago, and specifically that line, why wouldn't it?
@CapsUnlocked
@CapsUnlocked 4 года назад
14:54 You just made a lot of people check their discord.
@richiesahlin6409
@richiesahlin6409 3 года назад
Jokes on you, I'm on mobile.
@woofy1988
@woofy1988 3 года назад
Totally checked mine before rewinding the video XD
@bloodhound1182
@bloodhound1182 3 года назад
WAIT OK I THOUGHT IW AS FUCKING CRAZY
@gabrielvieira6529
@gabrielvieira6529 2 года назад
?
@tonchito1449
@tonchito1449 4 года назад
I guess you could say: The Beenz’ stock... Never sprouted.
@robloxmandude3641
@robloxmandude3641 4 года назад
ba dum chhh
@ikaros4203
@ikaros4203 4 года назад
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@Dantastic
@Dantastic 4 года назад
Jack let us all down.
@Itried20takennames
@Itried20takennames 4 года назад
Korichiro Nichiyōbi Good one.
@defaultdan7923
@defaultdan7923 4 года назад
IKAROS 420 fuck i was 4 months too late
@dandanthedandan7558
@dandanthedandan7558 4 года назад
Imagine an alternate world where most of the major real-world currency has hyperinflated due to the Great Depression and Beenz became a household currency in most developed countries
@Sanelicv
@Sanelicv 4 года назад
Greetings from Perú, Beenz are our official currency since 2002.
@cesarcastillo7129
@cesarcastillo7129 4 года назад
@@Sanelicv calla peruano
@greengreen110
@greengreen110 4 года назад
ah, hello fellow time traveler
@lajenehuen260
@lajenehuen260 4 года назад
@@Sanelicv Argentina starts using beenz when?
@catnium
@catnium 4 года назад
now imagine the real world history that actually happend in actual real life back when rice was used as currency in the east. Just when you thought you are save to make some humor real life history comes to kick your attempt in the nuts weird shit huh.
@kingd8232
@kingd8232 4 года назад
"THIS USER INVESTING IN BEENZ"
@RadicalEdward2
@RadicalEdward2 Год назад
They parodied this currency model in the game Hypnospace Outlaw. It’s an alternate universe 1990s internet where you play as “internet police”. It was called “Hypnocoin”. You could use them to buy wallpapers, music, etc. Commercial sites used them just like they were described in the video too where users were paid hypnocoin for taking surveys and there was even coin tracking too.
@archive94
@archive94 Год назад
Then you got the really bad Cashtap thing or something. Forget what it's called, haven't played since 2020. There was a mission where you had to get rid of the currency from almost everything you could find it on.
@liamsgreatbitgaming
@liamsgreatbitgaming 7 месяцев назад
⁠@@archive94capacash I believe
@arkatub
@arkatub 4 года назад
I put all my money in beenz and ignored bitcoin.
@ryanmalin
@ryanmalin 4 года назад
Flooz was better. You could wash dirty money easy with that one
@Tofu3435
@Tofu3435 4 года назад
Beenz to the moon, hodl beenz
@Jivvi
@Jivvi 4 года назад
Outstanding move!
@IxodesPersulcatus
@IxodesPersulcatus 4 года назад
At least people don't hate your guts.
@xplinux22
@xplinux22 4 года назад
@@Tofu3435 They should bring it back as a new cryptocurrency. 1 BNZ = 1 BNZ!
@rikkisan1
@rikkisan1 4 года назад
Me and the boys in 1999 looking for Beenz
@claudiolluberes111
@claudiolluberes111 4 года назад
Thanks dude, I thought for a second I wouldn't find a comment like this down here.
@rikkisan1
@rikkisan1 4 года назад
@@claudiolluberes111 i didnt see any...so duty called lol
@PikaPerfect
@PikaPerfect 4 года назад
your avatar is scary similar to the bad dragon logo and if that wasn't intentional, i'm sorry
@rikkisan1
@rikkisan1 4 года назад
@@PikaPerfect No, its the emblem of the Salamanders from Warhammer 40k....you heretic.
@budgiethedutchangeldragon782
@budgiethedutchangeldragon782 4 года назад
Lmao
@ejakalana20
@ejakalana20 4 года назад
i spent a whole 30 seconds checking all my discord groups because of 14:53 so thats kinda epic
@mrkitty4134
@mrkitty4134 Год назад
Same
@bighairsmallmotivation4642
@bighairsmallmotivation4642 Год назад
was looking for this comment
@dickheadrecs
@dickheadrecs Год назад
the Beenz discord is popping
@Bubbles-od2zm
@Bubbles-od2zm 4 года назад
“Cast your mind back to 1998.” Me: *was born in 2001* “okay”
@putraduha3176
@putraduha3176 4 года назад
Hmm warm folicle
@MrDoe-nw4ev
@MrDoe-nw4ev 4 года назад
Back to the sack with you. I'm off to my nap
@og.K7
@og.K7 4 года назад
@@MrDoe-nw4ev wut
@MrDoe-nw4ev
@MrDoe-nw4ev 4 года назад
@@og.K7 I was a toddler he was an egg
@ZenoDovahkiin
@ZenoDovahkiin 3 года назад
Good times. Alledgedly. I don't really remember much, but I am pretty sure I didn't have work and responsibilities at age 2. :D
@roostergentry
@roostergentry 4 года назад
Beenz kinda sounds like a weird precursor to crypto currencies
@MelodieOctavia
@MelodieOctavia 4 года назад
I wonder if Beenz will ever come back as a sort of corporate friendly crypto.
@truelethal1771
@truelethal1771 4 года назад
same thing I thought. reminds me a little of brave browser rewards
@mz7316
@mz7316 4 года назад
Well, Libra is basically that.
@isaacbailey3681
@isaacbailey3681 4 года назад
@@mz7316 Except run by Facebook and thus more flawed.
@GRBtutorials
@GRBtutorials 4 года назад
Beenzcoin!
@Engineer12798
@Engineer12798 4 года назад
I forgot to link my youtube account with my beenz account, so I couldn't get the free 150 beenz for watching this video.
@lorumipsum1129
@lorumipsum1129 4 года назад
Engineer12798 better then linking it to Google plus
@mirzaahmed6589
@mirzaahmed6589 4 года назад
Now you have 150 likes.
@Pouzdraken
@Pouzdraken 4 года назад
If that could happen, I’d probably have like millions of beenz a year to spend help
@daniexists6
@daniexists6 Год назад
Wow, it's almost like the concept of internet based currency with zero actual value will always be doomed to failure. *Cough cough*
@TubbyJ420
@TubbyJ420 Год назад
But it sure is fun watching all the crypto bros loose their life savings in nft scams & grifts lol
@aterack833
@aterack833 4 года назад
Surprised at the lack of “this _ eating beans” related comments
@vierundfuenfzig54
@vierundfuenfzig54 3 года назад
this nigga eating beans
@aazhoodena432
@aazhoodena432 3 года назад
a nigga eat bean
@lotus_flower2001
@lotus_flower2001 3 года назад
Dis nigga eatin beenz
@Arcademan09
@Arcademan09 4 года назад
Reminds me of It's Always Sunny when Mac and Dennis make their own currency but completely misunderstood how the economy works
@horacegentleman3296
@horacegentleman3296 4 года назад
That's exactly what i was thinking of.
@KnakuanaRka
@KnakuanaRka 4 года назад
What episode is that?
@Arcademan09
@Arcademan09 4 года назад
@@KnakuanaRka "The Great Recession"
@MasterOfKnowledge.
@MasterOfKnowledge. 4 года назад
Paddy's Dollars: Gone, but not forgotten
@giga9955
@giga9955 4 года назад
It’s a self sustaining economy; we need more Paddy’s dollars !
@Lee-fw5bd
@Lee-fw5bd 4 года назад
It's crazy how quickly this faded from public memory. I was a kid in the early 2000s and I have never heard of this or seen any of its iconography before
@taffyadam6031
@taffyadam6031 Год назад
it is iconography?
@Lee-fw5bd
@Lee-fw5bd Год назад
@@taffyadam6031 what?
@weightedtraininggear
@weightedtraininggear Год назад
@@Lee-fw5bd they're being snarky about you using it's instead of its
@Lee-fw5bd
@Lee-fw5bd Год назад
@@weightedtraininggear ah. Gotcha. It was 3 years ago so I can't really explain that but I'll edit it I guess. Thanks for pointing it out
@ljmill
@ljmill Год назад
I was a terminally online kid in the 90s and beyond and I never heard of beenz before either
@tedlovejesus
@tedlovejesus 4 года назад
I were in 8th grade and done a phone-in quiz for a radio program, and I won 10000 Beenz 😏 I bought one album of the most famous Japanese pop artist at the time and that’s it lol.. I didn’t know it was a thing at all, and this was in Hong Kong in 1999 I believe
@gcsgamingcommunity4087
@gcsgamingcommunity4087 4 года назад
"Cast your brain back to 1998" cool, so I don't exist
@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544
@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 4 года назад
You existed as a single cell
@ca-ke9493
@ca-ke9493 4 года назад
I existed for exactly 2 days
@Bad_Gazpacho
@Bad_Gazpacho 4 года назад
Y'all talking like 1998 was a long time ago. I mean it's been only twent... oh. Oh no.
@RandomTRandomReal
@RandomTRandomReal 3 года назад
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@BubbafromSapperton
@BubbafromSapperton 4 года назад
Now they're "has-beenz" 🤣
@liteknight
@liteknight 4 года назад
I was disappointed Nostalgia Nerd didn't make this joke, ngl.
@bshpev
@bshpev 4 года назад
fuckin'... that pun hurt. You win Internet points... they're worth less than beenz.
@Rudofaux
@Rudofaux 4 года назад
(standing ovation)
@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580
@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 4 года назад
Listen here you fr*cking sh*thead
@TechnoMinarchist
@TechnoMinarchist 4 года назад
I mean, calling themselves Beenz was their first mistake
@hobbswindrod
@hobbswindrod 4 года назад
I just watched twenty minutes about something that wasn’t even in my lifetime that I didn’t even know existed
@deltan6212
@deltan6212 4 года назад
Im guessing you werent the brightest kid in History class.
@hobbswindrod
@hobbswindrod 4 года назад
Deltan no I was born in 2007 and we haven’t cover the 90s yet lol
@hobbswindrod
@hobbswindrod 4 года назад
Wait why tf would I learn about beenz
@Fuckblmfuckpalestine
@Fuckblmfuckpalestine 4 года назад
@@hobbswindrod don't listen to that stupid ass I was born in this era and didn't know of it
@chi7087
@chi7087 4 года назад
Deltan LOL why tf would a history class take time out of a lesson plan to talk about a failed precursor to crypto currency?
@TheLiverpoolDelta
@TheLiverpoolDelta 4 года назад
I used to love Beenz. I used to sit in college collecting them all lesson then gamble them on a site called bet n win. Thanks for posting.
@AmbrosiusAmaimon
@AmbrosiusAmaimon 4 года назад
*"What's the matter? Scared of B E E N Z, space boy?"*
@RandomTRandomReal
@RandomTRandomReal 3 года назад
yes
@krubbington
@krubbington 2 года назад
I was looking for this comment
@doncarlin9081
@doncarlin9081 4 года назад
You should do one on eBates, we had to study them as a business case example of a really bad business idea during my MBA program. Their plan was to sell merchandise at a ridiculously high markup, then customers would fill out a rebate to get 100% of it back. Apparently the founders thought the usual low turnout for normal retail rebates would apply to them, that essentially that only 5 to 10% of buyers would claim the rebates. That was not the case, customers were filing for rebates at well over 90% which of course made eBates unsustainable and they went out of business quickly, leaving many customers stuck with merchandise that they paid a markup many times over the MSRP.
@Hammerhead547
@Hammerhead547 4 года назад
"I could get 100 free beenz". Then you can bury them in your garden wait for the beanstalk to grow and then steal the giant's golden goose.
@ausar4148
@ausar4148 3 года назад
*beenztalk
@em84c
@em84c 4 года назад
I remember being so excited when I got approved for a credit card (with a $200 limit) because I could finally shop online! So many sites didn't ship to Australia back then though. :( It's so good you just need a debit card now. I don't have a credit card anymore.
@copyrightclaim3541
@copyrightclaim3541 4 года назад
1:19 I can't watch that without thinking about the YTP constantly.
@W0lfbaneShikaisc00l
@W0lfbaneShikaisc00l 4 года назад
Beenz... Schemes... Redeem... and themes... so many rhyming possibilities... a marketers wet dream.
@SeaJay_Oceans
@SeaJay_Oceans 4 года назад
Pawn-Beenz Schemes.
@SantiagoAbud
@SantiagoAbud 4 года назад
Maybe that was the reason.
@lotus_flower2001
@lotus_flower2001 4 года назад
I creamed
@YirbyBond00Y
@YirbyBond00Y 4 года назад
@@SeaJay_Oceans Scheemz
@SeaJay_Oceans
@SeaJay_Oceans 4 года назад
@@YirbyBond00Y More like schemers, deploying the BitCoin digital currency against old paper currency - not as a replacement, just as market manipulation...while the blockchain has zero real value.
@ucankushincorporations1318
@ucankushincorporations1318 4 года назад
14:53 i thought the discord sound was from me there is also one more at 21:23
@Skylarr
@Skylarr 4 года назад
i was so confused lmao
@SoaringMoon
@SoaringMoon 4 года назад
Same
@eyesofnova
@eyesofnova 4 года назад
dude, I checked my laptop for a new message lol
@hakemon
@hakemon 4 года назад
I was looking over at my Discord confused, then I realized it was picked up on his side. Absolutely hilarious.
@EStarstruck
@EStarstruck 4 года назад
got me, too
@talkingtechnically
@talkingtechnically 4 года назад
This is literally Swagbucks but with more innovation and less famous.
@_nom_
@_nom_ 3 года назад
Never heard of swagbucks. O.o
@pinchraccoonproductions2100
@pinchraccoonproductions2100 2 года назад
Imagine having the Beenz counter on your toolbar while Bonzi Buddy is pestering you as you online shop
@FUnazis
@FUnazis 4 года назад
4:04 "Welcome to a world where you never have to work to get paid!" Gee, that sure doesn't sound scammy at all! Also, why hasn't that Nigerian Prince paid me those millions he promised me already? It's been years...
@charalampospapaioannou2371
@charalampospapaioannou2371 4 года назад
Hes still working on it be patient
@fordid42
@fordid42 4 года назад
_"Welcome to a world where you never have to work to get paid!"_ There's a subsection of "Just Chatting" streamers on Twitch that would love to have a word with you. And get you to sub to their channel.
@screenedfoliage
@screenedfoliage 4 года назад
he had his fortune in beenz
@SpiffingNZ
@SpiffingNZ 2 года назад
Time stamp not found.
@comradebusman3
@comradebusman3 4 года назад
The fact I've never heard of beenz is a telling sign on how this will end.
@lvlheadedrebel
@lvlheadedrebel 4 года назад
I love how there's that shot of a magazine quote from Uri Geller snuck in haha. EDIT: For once in that man's whole career, he wasn't lying
@SpunkMcKullins
@SpunkMcKullins 4 года назад
Would love to see a video on this subject with Lockerz someday. It came out of nowhere and was gone just as fast, yet somehow a friend of mine still managed to win an iPad off of it.
@generalpsyduck2624
@generalpsyduck2624 4 года назад
This just simply made me say "Beenz" repeatedly until it lost all meaning.
@eljakimdeclerck1941
@eljakimdeclerck1941 4 года назад
love those semantic sensations semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation semantic sensation sem an tic sen sa tion
@extrapathos
@extrapathos 4 года назад
I do that with a lot of words, I don't know what English is anymore.
@Havron
@Havron 3 года назад
@@eljakimdeclerck1941 *satiation
@PeeperSnail
@PeeperSnail 4 года назад
It’s an autumn evening in 2000. You’re in your bedroom with the lights dimmed and with a blanked draped over you and the comfy chair you’re in. The noise of the TV in the background and the purring of your cat sleeping in your lap soothes you as you redeem 150 Beenz. All is quiet, all is well.
@marcar9marcar972
@marcar9marcar972 Год назад
Honestly Beenz was a bit ahead of it’s time. Kinda like Bitcoin before Bitcoin
@fauchsil
@fauchsil Год назад
Somewhere there's a timeline where Beenz succeeded and PayPal failed
@MadameSomnambule
@MadameSomnambule 4 года назад
Paypal started as a beenz competitor, who knew?
@Aevilbeast
@Aevilbeast 4 года назад
And just think if Beenz were successful and Paypal failed instead, Elon Musk might have lost all his money and be bum on the street instead of one of the richest men in the world...
@BlvckMidas
@BlvckMidas 4 года назад
James Laforme no he wouldnt. Elons family has money stemming from times of slavery in South Africa. He would be slightly less rich, just most likely not famous at all
@firestone181
@firestone181 4 года назад
Brony? Or a MLP fan?
@RabidlyTaboo
@RabidlyTaboo 4 года назад
@@BlvckMidas a small loan of a million blacks
@YourAverageMulti
@YourAverageMulti 4 года назад
@@firestone181 They're practically the same thing lmao
@Mario583a
@Mario583a 4 года назад
You all laughed at me when I bought those three magic beenz. *Who's laughing now?!?!* You.
@user-kx2zv7tg3u
@user-kx2zv7tg3u 4 года назад
Yes I was on the chess team...
@Patrick.Weightman
@Patrick.Weightman Год назад
4:49 I love how it's impossible to have a nice picture of a Californian city because they all have a smog cloud hanging over them
@onadaTotihotiH
@onadaTotihotiH Год назад
Finding this video again after watching crypto flop big time in the last year or so really shows that time is a flat circle
@98JSB
@98JSB 4 года назад
11:56 ihatestarwars.com "Even the most ardent fan must be fed up with the hype" good to see the internet hasn't changed at all.
@solarstrike33
@solarstrike33 4 года назад
This was probably just before or right after Episode I.
@AximVidya
@AximVidya 4 года назад
Well, star wars 1-3 were almost as bad as 7-9 are, so I can understand the hate.
@genghisconn7770
@genghisconn7770 4 года назад
It's actually a pretty funny read. As someone who definitely is too young to have experienced the internet at this time it is a weirdly personal experience. Like, it's almost surreal how much this whole site just seems like a blog entry from some random disgruntled fan. Anyways, here's the link to the site as it was in 1999: web.archive.org/web/19991012045056/ihatestarwars.com/main.html
@cacomeat7385
@cacomeat7385 4 года назад
@Ralof Of Riverwood yeah it was actually fun to watch unlike the snorefests that were Episode 1 and 2
@Marshtard
@Marshtard 4 года назад
obligatory comment saying "at least the music is good"
@TheKd8lvt
@TheKd8lvt 4 года назад
14:55 Video: *discord noise* Me: *eyes flick down to taskbar* Discord: "Nope, false alarm, continue about your day."
@Jay-uu5lu
@Jay-uu5lu 4 года назад
Wtf is discord
@poble
@poble 4 года назад
@@Jay-uu5lu it's like skype but better
@radish6691
@radish6691 4 года назад
Poble II Wtf is Skype?
@Explosivewaveofnut
@Explosivewaveofnut 4 года назад
@@radish6691 a Please tell me if you are joking
@Explosivewaveofnut
@Explosivewaveofnut 4 года назад
@@Jay-uu5lu if you're joking the r/woosh me if you're not joking then how do you not know look at your username.
@Stereo6400
@Stereo6400 4 года назад
Nobody: 218: le sesterce 1175: le denier 1795: le franc 2000: *_le beenz_*
@BirdEgg123
@BirdEgg123 4 года назад
underrated
@soda3185
@soda3185 4 года назад
overrated, the "nobody XD" was unnecessary.
@lotus_flower2001
@lotus_flower2001 4 года назад
@@BirdEgg123 "comment from the video" Lol Xd so fuuuunnnnyyy!*!*!
@pizzarella985
@pizzarella985 4 года назад
@@lotus_flower2001 you don't get it, it has a "Nobody: " at the beginning and "le beenz" is written in bold AND italic, this is peak comedy.
@quietusplus1221
@quietusplus1221 3 года назад
These videos are so in-depth. Loving this channel (watching the backlog atm, discovered it past week)
@Elvan-Lady
@Elvan-Lady 4 года назад
Heads up, the clip from "The Real World" (starting at 3:49 ) has an incredibly high pitched noise in it. Like, one of those "mosquito noises" that are used to annoy teens that older adults can't hear type noises.
@ghilliem.g.5824
@ghilliem.g.5824 4 года назад
the first crypto currency was B E E N Z im so proud of this comunity
@HappyBeezerStudios
@HappyBeezerStudios 4 года назад
Wasn't really crypto, with no work that "makes you rich" It was more like in game currency nowadays. You got the points, you can't exchange them for money, but you can use them to buy stuff online.
@ghilliem.g.5824
@ghilliem.g.5824 4 года назад
@@HappyBeezerStudios :(
@Anafyral666
@Anafyral666 4 года назад
We should make it a thing again
@catplayingapiano2799
@catplayingapiano2799 4 года назад
uma delicia
@lowfn
@lowfn 4 года назад
@@HappyBeezerStudios ​ Scientia Enigma The joke
@uirusux
@uirusux 4 года назад
One of the best documentaries/essays on the site. I come back to it from time to time.
@sagacious03
@sagacious03 4 года назад
After ages of this being in my reccomendations, I finally got around to watching this. Pretty interesting! Also, funny coincidence: Toontown, an old Disney MMO RPG, used JELLY BEANS as its currency!
@westganton
@westganton 4 года назад
The name 'Beenz' pisses me off and I don't know why
@c5ys543
@c5ys543 4 года назад
dammit now that you mention it, it does
@jackdavenport5011
@jackdavenport5011 3 года назад
It’s just spelt really stupidly
@infernix2k
@infernix2k 3 года назад
I didn’t notice, but it does
@Lunchpacked180
@Lunchpacked180 4 года назад
someone didn't hate starwars enough to keep ihatestarwars alive
@Deliveredmean42
@Deliveredmean42 4 года назад
If that was around 2018, we could seen a cult following lol
@CardboardSliver
@CardboardSliver 4 года назад
It should come back.
@jhlc1235
@jhlc1235 4 года назад
@Feeble Bastard no u
@TheClintonio
@TheClintonio Год назад
This reopened a memory I completely forgot I had. I feel like I saw these in magazines as adverts when I was a kid.
@Thrifty032781
@Thrifty032781 4 года назад
Man, at 11:32 he mentions Ebay looking for ways to do online payments. That brings me back. I used Ebay way back in the day when it was just auctions and you had to pay for everything by check or money order. I think there was some sort of I-Escrow service you could use, but that was complicated and rare. I always just sent money orders, so that the seller didn't have to wait for a check to clear.
@brux357
@brux357 4 года назад
“2000: le beenz”
@cheekybananaboy3361
@cheekybananaboy3361 4 года назад
*LE MONKE*
@rintinfin4440
@rintinfin4440 4 года назад
Le troll face Le epic
@judyhaynes9517
@judyhaynes9517 4 года назад
Targét: The French department store
@max9739
@max9739 4 года назад
"they all got scared and started selling their beenz" - Hey, i've seen this one before, its a classic!
@EeveeFromAlmia
@EeveeFromAlmia 3 года назад
There is another timeline where Beenz are still around and their logo is like, just a red circle and the b and you can like, buy twitch subs with them or something
@toastymuffin4153
@toastymuffin4153 4 года назад
I remember seeing the Beenz logo on adds, I always ignored it.
@NANNO_FEMBOY
@NANNO_FEMBOY 4 года назад
Me and the boys at 2am looking for some BEENZ
@Dumb_Killjoy
@Dumb_Killjoy 4 года назад
Asking for BEENZ
@OkSharkey
@OkSharkey 4 года назад
I;m thinking about thos Beenz
@SoftEndy
@SoftEndy 4 года назад
I;m
@jgood005
@jgood005 4 года назад
h
@ThePainkiller9995
@ThePainkiller9995 4 года назад
Based
@jiornojiovanna5722
@jiornojiovanna5722 4 года назад
B
@exittheflorpus7354
@exittheflorpus7354 4 года назад
beeb
@ZenoDovahkiin
@ZenoDovahkiin 3 года назад
14:55 You know that "phantom vibration" thing where people think their phone went off when it didn't? I thought I was having that.
@Alayric
@Alayric 4 года назад
Cool Beenz video! Well documented.
@Roxas09202
@Roxas09202 4 года назад
This business model was actually so rad. Marketing to consumers but gaining profit from companies is pretty interesting and unique.
@klausstock8020
@klausstock8020 7 месяцев назад
A currency which is not a currency. A loyalty program which does not reward loyalty (except to itself). Not sure about the business model...but the marketing definitely did it.
@GBlastMan
@GBlastMan 4 года назад
They had an Beenz rap? really? but of course they had it was the 90's everything had a rap song at that time
@esseubot
@esseubot 4 года назад
I'm trying to find that rap for an hour to no luck. sadly.
@nihilvox
@nihilvox 4 года назад
Check out the Tennessee Bicentennial Rap. Officially a state song of Tennessee, and so far as I can tell the only recording that exists is by an old white lady who presumably also wrote it.
@ZachCG
@ZachCG 4 года назад
esseubot DUDE ME TOO WE NEEED IT
@FitzPenn
@FitzPenn 3 года назад
I was born in 2000, and still have SUPER faint memories of faded beenz logos on old posters and the like. Never knew what it was, thanks for the info!
@SystemID9
@SystemID9 2 года назад
Great video. I remember collecting Beenz as a kid.
@PunkTiger
@PunkTiger 4 года назад
I was online and in my 30s during most of the 1990s, and I've never heard of this before. I've heard of Flooz, but not Beenz.
@rancidbeef582
@rancidbeef582 4 года назад
Yeah, I'm about the same age and never heard of Beenz either. Maybe I was too busy buying huge bags of cat food cheaper than at the box stores and with free shipping from pets.com :-)
@alexojideagu
@alexojideagu 4 года назад
I'm in my late 30's now and I knew Beenz in 2001, but only via an Internet Magazine, it had an alternative currency section. I never actually saw Beenz on the Internet itself.
@PlasticCogLiquid
@PlasticCogLiquid 4 года назад
I'm guessing any of us that used pop-up blockers at the time probably never heard of Beenz :]
@dacypher22
@dacypher22 4 года назад
Yeah, I was on the web during this time and don't remember this. I was a bit on the younger side at about 16/17, so maybe it was because I wasn't really buying things online.
@huskyfluffers9017
@huskyfluffers9017 4 года назад
owo what's this?
@JasonSchoeman
@JasonSchoeman 4 года назад
Aaah those days - When Google's slogan still was - Do no evil. How things have changed.
@crunchychips8123
@crunchychips8123 4 года назад
"Don't be evil".
@andymadden8183
@andymadden8183 4 года назад
Actually, it was "Don't Be Evil". They quietly removed it from their code of ethics a few years ago.
@vurpo7080
@vurpo7080 4 года назад
"Don't be evil" is still in their code of conduct, but they have moved it from the top to the bottom.
@hicknopunk
@hicknopunk 4 года назад
It was never a policy. Google has always been evil.
@hicknopunk
@hicknopunk 4 года назад
@Shardion I don't trust the tor network. Otherwise, yeah.
@puffylinux8653
@puffylinux8653 Год назад
I dont know why but I find myself rewatching this video a lot. its a fascinating topic to me and such a niche one at that. wonderful video even after 4 rewatches lol
@FinnbarrGoesFast
@FinnbarrGoesFast Год назад
Same, it's kinda fascinating looking back at this thing in a post crypto post NFT world
@mae_day3189
@mae_day3189 4 года назад
"Cast your mind back to 1998" Me, born after 2000: Ah yes
@romanbukins6527
@romanbukins6527 4 года назад
I sincerely hope that when they went under the letter to the clients looked like this: Dear Sir/Madam, *YOU FREAKING MORON! YOU JUST GOT BEANED!*
@diggory4ii385
@diggory4ii385 4 года назад
*Frikkin
@p0tatob0ys
@p0tatob0ys 4 года назад
'I dont think they deserve to be called one of the greatest dotcom disasters' ... Calls video 'Beenz: One of Greatest dotcom Disasters of all Time...'
@foxmcleod
@foxmcleod 4 года назад
Here is a wild idea: read the description too "Beenz: One of Greatest dotcom Disasters of all Time... ... that's according to CNet at least, who put it in their top 10 greatest defunct Web sites and dotcom disasters all time. That's not how I arrived here though"
@p0tatob0ys
@p0tatob0ys 4 года назад
@@foxmcleod Here's an incredible revelation. I did.
@foxmcleod
@foxmcleod 4 года назад
@@p0tatob0ys and you still didn't manage to grasp what he meant. Well done. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
@p0tatob0ys
@p0tatob0ys 4 года назад
@@foxmcleod Always a pleasure o' wise and great keyboard warrior.
@spud3149
@spud3149 4 года назад
Wow.. Dick.
@onewhosaysgoose4831
@onewhosaysgoose4831 4 года назад
"Your Choices were far more limited" Dude, todays options are: 1. Amazon 2. Ebay 3. Walmart if your a hipster 4. A company's own website you found through Amazon or Ebay (or maybe found yourself)
@aterack833
@aterack833 4 года назад
That doesn’t ship to Canada so you have to walk 8 blocks to the physical
@mdramey6182
@mdramey6182 4 года назад
Etzy
@informalnarwhals
@informalnarwhals 4 года назад
Sucks how often even if something is *listed* on walmart, doesn't mean it's ever stocked (ex, stuff discontinued years ago * , limited editions) + sometimes the company doesn't even sell from their own website. Bringing you back to 1 + 2 >:( (*but I will wait for those minute maid popsicles. I don't care how many years its been.)
@hairypancake
@hairypancake 4 года назад
I like that you simplified 1000's of websites into one point just to make yourself sound right.
@theFonzii
@theFonzii 4 года назад
@@hairypancake fr this dude does not know what hes talking about
@YYAT
@YYAT 4 года назад
16:05 "These ideas were crap" cc: "some ideas just... werent good"
@colonelk3000
@colonelk3000 4 года назад
This is my internet era and I have absolutely no memory of it haha. I remember the lack of interest in WAP being dubbed WAPathy though
@simontay4851
@simontay4851 4 года назад
I don't remember beanz either. This video is the first time ive heard of beanz.
@hgbugalou
@hgbugalou 4 года назад
I don't remember it because I was too young to have a regular income and cash was still king in my world.
@danguy2009
@danguy2009 4 года назад
Same, I don't remember it neither.
@BubblegumLightsaber
@BubblegumLightsaber 4 года назад
Same, I started going online in 1994-95 (as a teenager) and I don't remember Beenz at all. This video didn't even trigger anything in my subconscious.
@superscatboy
@superscatboy 4 года назад
I spent at least a day of my life learning to make web pages for WAP. I want my day back.
@joshreiman
@joshreiman 4 года назад
Thank you so much for making this. I don't remember beenz at all, but I worked at a major ISP from 1999-2001 as an engineer doing backend stuff and because of that I really didn't pay much attention to what was happening on the web. I also want to give you props for not mentioning the September 11 2001 attacks. While the events that happened that day had a major effect on the world and possibly the global economy, the dotcom bubble burst would have happened regardless. Cheers!
@taylorj6177
@taylorj6177 4 года назад
'Nother fun=-fact, "Beans" was also a popular slang-term for the drug Ecstasy/ MDMA or commonly called "rolls.." I actually remember when this came out and that was what it reminded me of lol. (I'm sure the team was Well aware of this connotation as well hahah)
@jaredgraywest
@jaredgraywest 2 года назад
Is it weird that, even though I was in college in 1999 and used the web constantly, I don't recall ever hearing about Beenz until now?
@justas423
@justas423 4 года назад
TL;DR The Great beenz Depression ruined everything
@AlecLeigh
@AlecLeigh 4 года назад
Been using, and working with the internet since 1996, never heard of Beenz
@Brando56894
@Brando56894 4 года назад
They were popular for all of a year or so, pretty much gone in the blink of an eye. We got our first PC in 95 and I remember Beenz.
@AlecLeigh
@AlecLeigh 4 года назад
@@Brando56894 strange, legitimately never heard of them. Nice piece of internet history though.
@Rando1975
@Rando1975 4 года назад
Same here.
@common_c3nts
@common_c3nts 4 года назад
Yep, lived on the internet as a kid at that time and always looked at all the deals and schemes. Never heard of beenz.
@kevin-gayrebelamerican8047
@kevin-gayrebelamerican8047 4 года назад
Mandela Effect!
@holderian0
@holderian0 Год назад
Thanks for spilling the beans on this topic
@ca-ke9493
@ca-ke9493 4 года назад
that beenz bus picture is from Singapore...I was not expecting beenz to have come anywhere near I where I lived...
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