Beenz: One of Greatest dotcom Disasters of all Time...

Beenz: One of Greatest dotcom Disasters of all Time... | Nostalgia Nerd

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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 4 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

that's hillarious

@tonoornottono Жыл бұрын

you’re evil that’s so funny

@TopazTK Жыл бұрын

I mean, Jeeves was real, kinda.

@Rhombusreal Жыл бұрын

Idk maybe im a bit too empathetic but i just kinda feel like you were a dick to your grandparents for no reason

@petrolhead0387 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@the-hd5cx 4 жыл бұрын

What's your paypal bro? *SORRY I ONLY USE BEENZ*

@MegaIanlee 4 жыл бұрын

@Rudy wyjaśnia mema 1.1k likes heh

@jazz21977 4 жыл бұрын

I liked 404 better ;P

@cullbear55 4 жыл бұрын

🅱️ E E N Z

@spythetired 4 жыл бұрын

@@cullbear55 y e s

@ZaHandle 4 жыл бұрын

Imperial Spy 🅱️ Y E S

@gioiacobucci 4 жыл бұрын

Just when I got used to hearing “beenz”, they hit me with “flooz”

@bench3248 4 жыл бұрын

flooz gang ouuh

@mikevids8107 4 жыл бұрын

Just when I though I was out, they drag me back in.

@garf6394 3 жыл бұрын

Frick flooz all my homies hate flooz

@hourenschaiss2 3 жыл бұрын

In the moroccan dialect of arabic “ Fo'lou'ss فلوس “ pronounced "flooz" actually means "money".

@nothx2845 3 жыл бұрын

@@hourenschaiss2 its nOt oNlY mOrRoCan 😡

@tnaz8280 4 жыл бұрын

"Do you take card?" "No, only beenz"

@RandomTRandomReal 3 жыл бұрын

*b e e n z*

@Alibm80 3 жыл бұрын

Oh no. I’ll find a grocery store and come back. 🙄

@tnaz8280 2 жыл бұрын

once again another unfunny comment that has come back to haunt me

@antidevgodot Жыл бұрын

@@tnaz8280 Lol

@Olflix 6 ай бұрын

And it will haunt you again 2 years later@@tnaz8280

@gabrielkellar1935 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine living in a world where the name of currency is beenz

@Marshtard 4 жыл бұрын

**laughs in ToonTown Online**

@Funkoh 4 жыл бұрын

*laughs in high school lunch trade*

@full-timepog6844 4 жыл бұрын

Has beenz

@emmanuellopez3471 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine living in a world owed by a entity named GUUGELE.

@cupcakethesabertooth6802 4 жыл бұрын

*B E E N Z*

@spartonberry 4 жыл бұрын

"Are your friends worth 250 beenz?" A question we should ask ourselves each day.

@Walter_ 4 жыл бұрын

Depends on who you ask.

@32BitLink 4 жыл бұрын

2.50 is a cheap price for people

@FiresplitterX 4 жыл бұрын

I mean, if Mr. Krabs could sell Spongebob's soul for 62 cents, who am I to argue?

@Mikey-zk5wc 4 жыл бұрын

@@32BitLink hey, not in the 1800!

@wdfghjkl 4 жыл бұрын

I been thinking bout thos beans

@StoneWeevil 4 жыл бұрын

My God look at all that late 90s web design It's beautiful

@DashingSteel 4 жыл бұрын

"This man of colour is investing in Beanz!"

@Jack-nn6gn 3 жыл бұрын

"in a movie theater no less!!"

@Tauva 3 жыл бұрын

While watching the second installation in a trilogy of films about talking automobiles

@RabidlyTaboo 3 жыл бұрын

"This woman of color is investing in flooz!" damn gender politics

@WonderfulBoness 3 жыл бұрын

@@RabidlyTaboo wot

@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 3 жыл бұрын

"This colored male of African descent is earning an online currency called beenz."

@KhaiJbach 4 жыл бұрын

"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 4 жыл бұрын

Are you saying Nectar hyperinflated?

@justas423 4 жыл бұрын

@@pikatheminecrafter dude that number is like a trillion. Definitely hyperinflation

@cbomb60 4 жыл бұрын

500 quintillion Nectar Points really is a dream You could buy at least two bags of crisps with that

@Connotative 4 жыл бұрын

@@justas423 its 500 quintillion

@pikatheminecrafter 4 жыл бұрын

@@Connotative it's 500 long trillion, but I don't think most people use long numbers.

@The_Soda_Man 4 жыл бұрын

The fact that it was called "Beenz" makes me want to throw a brick through a window.

@jermafan111 4 жыл бұрын

You have earned 150 beenz for this comment.

@rainbowhat4990 4 жыл бұрын

beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz

@darkcoeficient 4 жыл бұрын

Why throw a perfectly good brick when you can defenestrate a perfectly useless beenz?

@Dumb_Killjoy 4 жыл бұрын

@@darkcoeficient Been?

@dracenmarx 4 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best and most fitting comments I've ever seen, seriously!

@Dainted9608 4 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

I think the modern equivalent would be bitcoin

@cloudynguyen6527 Жыл бұрын

Wait, you've never paid cash or card? Always has beenz

@yomama9390 Жыл бұрын

@@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo no, it would not. bitcoin is its own trash

@endurodlapoczatkujacych4504 Жыл бұрын

Deez beanz

@robmaelstorm23 Жыл бұрын

Lmao the name choice for a revolutionary currency 🥲 smh

@hfontanez98 4 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

Likely bcuz it was utter crap

@RockandrollNegro 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

same

@thefrostbro6319 4 жыл бұрын

how many beenz?

@kornsuwin 4 жыл бұрын

oof

@idiot7662 4 жыл бұрын

rip

@sketchbookMonster 4 жыл бұрын

this is the most Year 2000 sentence on youtube i've seen

@blackoverblueskies6221 4 жыл бұрын

Beenz looks like an app that’ll make you fill out surveys

@KJ7QLV 4 жыл бұрын

Didn't all apps look like that in 1999?

@ComradeTiki 4 жыл бұрын

@@KJ7QLV Hello, I'm from 1999. What's an app?

@blackoverblueskies6221 4 жыл бұрын

Kyle Freed I meant to write "Today's Beenz app"

@wolfzmusic9706 4 жыл бұрын

Cythil pretty sure it was a joke

@Cythil 4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfzmusic9706 So was my lame response ;)

@tehbeanz5062 3 жыл бұрын

7:08 "le beenz" man dies of laughter in his house

@CapsUnlocked 3 жыл бұрын

14:54 You just made a lot of people check their discord.

@richiesahlin6409 3 жыл бұрын

Jokes on you, I'm on mobile.

@woofy1988 3 жыл бұрын

Totally checked mine before rewinding the video XD

@bloodhound1182 3 жыл бұрын

WAIT OK I THOUGHT IW AS FUCKING CRAZY

@gabrielvieira6529 2 жыл бұрын

@EmulsionTime 4 жыл бұрын

"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 4 жыл бұрын

They didn’t deserve it, but it happened anyway.

@prof298 4 жыл бұрын

He explains in the description that it's what the list he found called it.

@wulf7744 4 жыл бұрын

@@prof298 its 2020 people are still reading the description?

@ryan-heath 4 жыл бұрын

AfroUchiha neither the video, only the comments.

@riplix20 4 жыл бұрын

@@wulf7744 its 2020 and people still don't read descriptions?

@MisterSouji 4 жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting to trade my beenz in for that Dreamcast

@kittycat-sc7je 4 жыл бұрын

*þat

@varikvalefor3773 4 жыл бұрын

kitty cat?: The thorn character is deprecated.

@electroflame6188 4 жыл бұрын

@@kittycat-sc7je */ðæʔ/

@Jivvi 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

Jivan Scarano: "Thee" and "thou" are singular, and "you" and "ye" are plural.

@RadicalEdward2 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

⁠@@archive94capacash I believe

@LoopyLongplays 3 жыл бұрын

Me - How much is that book? Fred & George - 100 Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

@gabrielrobinson1279 2 жыл бұрын

Yes of course my brain still remembers this game from nearly 2 decades ago, and specifically that line, why wouldn't it?

@rikkisan1 4 жыл бұрын

Me and the boys in 1999 looking for Beenz

@claudiolluberes111 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks dude, I thought for a second I wouldn't find a comment like this down here.

@rikkisan1 4 жыл бұрын

@@claudiolluberes111 i didnt see any...so duty called lol

@PikaPerfect 4 жыл бұрын

your avatar is scary similar to the bad dragon logo and if that wasn't intentional, i'm sorry

@rikkisan1 4 жыл бұрын

@@PikaPerfect No, its the emblem of the Salamanders from Warhammer 40k....you heretic.

@budgiethedutchangeldragon782 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@tonchito1449 4 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say: The Beenz’ stock... Never sprouted.

@robloxmandude3641 4 жыл бұрын

ba dum chhh

@ikaros4203 4 жыл бұрын

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@Dantastic 4 жыл бұрын

Jack let us all down.

@Itried20takennames 4 жыл бұрын

Korichiro Nichiyōbi Good one.

@defaultdan7923 4 жыл бұрын

IKAROS 420 fuck i was 4 months too late

@ejakalana20 3 жыл бұрын

i spent a whole 30 seconds checking all my discord groups because of 14:53 so thats kinda epic

@mrkitty4134 Жыл бұрын

Same

@bighairsmallmotivation4642 Жыл бұрын

was looking for this comment

@dickheadrecs Жыл бұрын

the Beenz discord is popping

@takemehome5749 3 жыл бұрын

this takes a whole new meaning for "me and the boys at 2 am looking for beenz"

@arkatub 4 жыл бұрын

I put all my money in beenz and ignored bitcoin.

@ryanmalin 4 жыл бұрын

Flooz was better. You could wash dirty money easy with that one

@Tofu3435 4 жыл бұрын

Beenz to the moon, hodl beenz

@Jivvi 4 жыл бұрын

Outstanding move!

@IxodesPersulcatus 4 жыл бұрын

At least people don't hate your guts.

@xplinux22 4 жыл бұрын

@@Tofu3435 They should bring it back as a new cryptocurrency. 1 BNZ = 1 BNZ!

@dandanthedandan7558 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Perú, Beenz are our official currency since 2002.

@cesarcastillo7129 4 жыл бұрын

@@Sanelicv calla peruano

@greengreen110 4 жыл бұрын

ah, hello fellow time traveler

@lajenehuen260 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sanelicv Argentina starts using beenz when?

@catnium 3 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

"THIS USER INVESTING IN BEENZ"

@tedlovejesus 4 жыл бұрын

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

@Engineer12798 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

Engineer12798 better then linking it to Google plus

@mirzaahmed6589 4 жыл бұрын

Now you have 150 likes.

@Pouzdraken 4 жыл бұрын

If that could happen, I’d probably have like millions of beenz a year to spend help

@Arcademan09 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of It's Always Sunny when Mac and Dennis make their own currency but completely misunderstood how the economy works

@horacegentleman3296 4 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what i was thinking of.

@KnakuanaRka 4 жыл бұрын

What episode is that?

@Arcademan09 4 жыл бұрын

@@KnakuanaRka "The Great Recession"

@MasterOfKnowledge. 4 жыл бұрын

Paddy's Dollars: Gone, but not forgotten

@giga9955 4 жыл бұрын

It’s a self sustaining economy; we need more Paddy’s dollars !

@Bubbles-od2zm 4 жыл бұрын

“Cast your mind back to 1998.” Me: *was born in 2001* “okay”

@putraduha3176 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm warm folicle

@MrDoe-nw4ev 3 жыл бұрын

Back to the sack with you. I'm off to my nap

@og.K7 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrDoe-nw4ev wut

@MrDoe-nw4ev 3 жыл бұрын

@@og.K7 I was a toddler he was an egg

@ZenoDovahkiin 3 жыл бұрын

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

@aterack833 4 жыл бұрын

Surprised at the lack of “this _ eating beans” related comments

@vierundfuenfzig54 3 жыл бұрын

this nigga eating beans

@aazhoodena432 3 жыл бұрын

a nigga eat bean

@lotus_flower2001 3 жыл бұрын

Dis nigga eatin beenz

@Lee-fw5bd 4 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

it is iconography?

@Lee-fw5bd Жыл бұрын

@@taffyadam6031 what?

@weightedtraininggear Жыл бұрын

@@Lee-fw5bd they're being snarky about you using it's instead of its

@Lee-fw5bd Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

I was a terminally online kid in the 90s and beyond and I never heard of beenz before either

@BubbafromSapperton 4 жыл бұрын

Now they're "has-beenz" 🤣

@liteknight 4 жыл бұрын

I was disappointed Nostalgia Nerd didn't make this joke, ngl.

@bshpev 4 жыл бұрын

fuckin'... that pun hurt. You win Internet points... they're worth less than beenz.

@Rudofaux 4 жыл бұрын

(standing ovation)

@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 4 жыл бұрын

Listen here you fr*cking sh*thead

@TechnoMinarchistBall 4 жыл бұрын

I mean, calling themselves Beenz was their first mistake

@TheLiverpoolDelta 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@em84c 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@roostergentry 4 жыл бұрын

Beenz kinda sounds like a weird precursor to crypto currencies

@MelodieOctavia 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Beenz will ever come back as a sort of corporate friendly crypto.

@truelethal1771 4 жыл бұрын

same thing I thought. reminds me a little of brave browser rewards

@mz7316 4 жыл бұрын

Well, Libra is basically that.

@isaacbailey3681 4 жыл бұрын

@@mz7316 Except run by Facebook and thus more flawed.

@GRBtutorials 4 жыл бұрын

Beenzcoin!

@W0lfbaneShikaisc00l 4 жыл бұрын

Beenz... Schemes... Redeem... and themes... so many rhyming possibilities... a marketers wet dream.

@SeaJay_Oceans 4 жыл бұрын

Pawn-Beenz Schemes.

@SantiagoAbud 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe that was the reason.

@lotus_flower2001 4 жыл бұрын

I creamed

@YirbyBond00Y 4 жыл бұрын

@@SeaJay_Oceans Scheemz

@SeaJay_Oceans 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@daniexists6 Жыл бұрын

Wow, it's almost like the concept of internet based currency with zero actual value will always be doomed to failure. *Cough cough*

@TubbyJ420 Жыл бұрын

But it sure is fun watching all the crypto bros loose their life savings in nft scams & grifts lol

@AmbrosiusAmaimon 4 жыл бұрын

*"What's the matter? Scared of B E E N Z, space boy?"*

@RandomTRandomReal 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@krubbington 2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment

@Hammerhead547 4 жыл бұрын

"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 3 жыл бұрын

*beenztalk

@doncarlin9081 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@copyrightclaim3541 4 жыл бұрын

1:19 I can't watch that without thinking about the YTP constantly.

@gcsgamingcommunity4087 4 жыл бұрын

"Cast your brain back to 1998" cool, so I don't exist

@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 4 жыл бұрын

You existed as a single cell

@ca-ke9493 3 жыл бұрын

I existed for exactly 2 days

@Bad_Gazpacho 3 жыл бұрын

Y'all talking like 1998 was a long time ago. I mean it's been only twent... oh. Oh no.

@RandomTRandomReal 3 жыл бұрын

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@ucankushincorporations1318 4 жыл бұрын

14:53 i thought the discord sound was from me there is also one more at 21:23

@Skylarr 4 жыл бұрын

i was so confused lmao

@SoaringMoon 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@eyesofnova 4 жыл бұрын

dude, I checked my laptop for a new message lol

@hakemon 4 жыл бұрын

I was looking over at my Discord confused, then I realized it was picked up on his side. Absolutely hilarious.

@EStarstruck 4 жыл бұрын

got me, too

@TheKd8lvt 4 жыл бұрын

14:55 Video: *discord noise* Me: *eyes flick down to taskbar* Discord: "Nope, false alarm, continue about your day."

@Jay-uu5lu 4 жыл бұрын

Wtf is discord

@poble 4 жыл бұрын

@@Jay-uu5lu it's like skype but better

@radish6691 4 жыл бұрын

Poble II Wtf is Skype?

@Explosivewaveofnut 4 жыл бұрын

@@radish6691 a Please tell me if you are joking

@Explosivewaveofnut 4 жыл бұрын

@@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 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody: 218: le sesterce 1175: le denier 1795: le franc 2000: *_le beenz_*

@BirdEgg123 4 жыл бұрын

underrated

@soda3185 4 жыл бұрын

overrated, the "nobody XD" was unnecessary.

@lotus_flower2001 4 жыл бұрын

@@BirdEgg123 "comment from the video" Lol Xd so fuuuunnnnyyy!*!*!

@pizzarella985 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@lvlheadedrebel 3 жыл бұрын

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

@FUnazis 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

Hes still working on it be patient

@fordid42 4 жыл бұрын

_"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 3 жыл бұрын

he had his fortune in beenz

@SpiffingNZ 2 жыл бұрын

Time stamp not found.

@hobbswindrod 4 жыл бұрын

I just watched twenty minutes about something that wasn’t even in my lifetime that I didn’t even know existed

@deltan6212 4 жыл бұрын

Im guessing you werent the brightest kid in History class.

@hobbswindrod 4 жыл бұрын

Deltan no I was born in 2007 and we haven’t cover the 90s yet lol

@hobbswindrod 4 жыл бұрын

Wait why tf would I learn about beenz

@Fuckblmfuckpalestine 4 жыл бұрын

@@hobbswindrod don't listen to that stupid ass I was born in this era and didn't know of it

@chi7087 4 жыл бұрын

Deltan LOL why tf would a history class take time out of a lesson plan to talk about a failed precursor to crypto currency?

@Patrick.Weightman Жыл бұрын

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

@SpunkMcKullins 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@98JSB 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

This was probably just before or right after Episode I.

@AximVidya 4 жыл бұрын

Well, star wars 1-3 were almost as bad as 7-9 are, so I can understand the hate.

@genghisconn7770 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

@Ralof Of Riverwood yeah it was actually fun to watch unlike the snorefests that were Episode 1 and 2

@Marshtard 4 жыл бұрын

obligatory comment saying "at least the music is good"

@comradebusman3 4 жыл бұрын

The fact I've never heard of beenz is a telling sign on how this will end.

@talkingtechnically 3 жыл бұрын

This is literally Swagbucks but with more innovation and less famous.

@_nom_ 3 жыл бұрын

Never heard of swagbucks. O.o

@marcar9marcar972 Жыл бұрын

Honestly Beenz was a bit ahead of it’s time. Kinda like Bitcoin before Bitcoin

@generalpsyduck2624 4 жыл бұрын

This just simply made me say "Beenz" repeatedly until it lost all meaning.

@eljakimdeclerck1941 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

I do that with a lot of words, I don't know what English is anymore.

@Havron 3 жыл бұрын

@@eljakimdeclerck1941 *satiation

@Elvan-Lady 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@pinchraccoonproductions2100 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine having the Beenz counter on your toolbar while Bonzi Buddy is pestering you as you online shop

@onadaTotihotiH Жыл бұрын

Finding this video again after watching crypto flop big time in the last year or so really shows that time is a flat circle

@MadameSomnambule 4 жыл бұрын

Paypal started as a beenz competitor, who knew?

@Aevilbeast 4 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Brony? Or a MLP fan?

@RabidlyTaboo 3 жыл бұрын

@@BlvckMidas a small loan of a million blacks

@YourAverageMulti 3 жыл бұрын

@@firestone181 They're practically the same thing lmao

@romanbukins6527 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

*Frikkin

@Thrifty032781 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@sagacious03 4 жыл бұрын

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!

@PeeperSnail 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@Mario583a 4 жыл бұрын

You all laughed at me when I bought those three magic beenz. *Who's laughing now?!?!* You.

@user-kx2zv7tg3u 4 жыл бұрын

Yes I was on the chess team...

@toastymuffin4153 3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the Beenz logo on adds, I always ignored it.

@ZenoDovahkiin 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Lunchpacked180 4 жыл бұрын

someone didn't hate starwars enough to keep ihatestarwars alive

@Deliveredmean42 4 жыл бұрын

If that was around 2018, we could seen a cult following lol

@CardboardSliver 4 жыл бұрын

It should come back.

@jhlc1235 4 жыл бұрын

@Feeble Bastard no u

@brux357 4 жыл бұрын

“2000: le beenz”

@cheekybananaboy3361 4 жыл бұрын

*LE MONKE*

@rintinfin4440 4 жыл бұрын

Le troll face Le epic

@judyhaynes9517 4 жыл бұрын

Targét: The French department store

@YYAT 3 жыл бұрын

16:05 "These ideas were crap" cc: "some ideas just... werent good"

@uirusux 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best documentaries/essays on the site. I come back to it from time to time.

@NANNO_FMBY 4 жыл бұрын

Me and the boys at 2am looking for some BEENZ

@Dumb_Killjoy 4 жыл бұрын

Asking for BEENZ

@max9739 4 жыл бұрын

"they all got scared and started selling their beenz" - Hey, i've seen this one before, its a classic!

@TheClintonio Жыл бұрын

This reopened a memory I completely forgot I had. I feel like I saw these in magazines as adverts when I was a kid.

@quietusplus1221 3 жыл бұрын

These videos are so in-depth. Loving this channel (watching the backlog atm, discovered it past week)

@Roxas09202 4 жыл бұрын

This business model was actually so rad. Marketing to consumers but gaining profit from companies is pretty interesting and unique.

@klausstock8020 5 ай бұрын

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.

@westganton 4 жыл бұрын

The name 'Beenz' pisses me off and I don't know why

@c5ys543 4 жыл бұрын

dammit now that you mention it, it does

@jackdavenport5011 3 жыл бұрын

It’s just spelt really stupidly

@infernix2k 3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t notice, but it does

@EeveeFromAlmia 3 жыл бұрын

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

@fauchsil Жыл бұрын

Somewhere there's a timeline where Beenz succeeded and PayPal failed

@justas423 4 жыл бұрын

TL;DR The Great beenz Depression ruined everything

@OkSharkey 4 жыл бұрын

I;m thinking about thos Beenz

@SoftEndy 4 жыл бұрын

I;m

@jgood005 4 жыл бұрын

@ThePainkiller9995 4 жыл бұрын

Based

@jiornojiovanna5722 4 жыл бұрын

@exittheflorpus7354 4 жыл бұрын

beeb

@FitzPenn 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@taylorj6177 4 жыл бұрын

'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)

@ghilliem.g.5824 4 жыл бұрын

the first crypto currency was B E E N Z im so proud of this comunity

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios :(

@Anafyral666 4 жыл бұрын

We should make it a thing again

@catplayingapiano2799 4 жыл бұрын

uma delicia

@lowfn 4 жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios Scientia Enigma The joke

@GBlastMan 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to find that rap for an hour to no luck. sadly.

@nihilvox 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

esseubot DUDE ME TOO WE NEEED IT

@SystemID9 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I remember collecting Beenz as a kid.

@ca-ke9493 3 жыл бұрын

that beenz bus picture is from Singapore...I was not expecting beenz to have come anywhere near I where I lived...

@PunkTiger 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing any of us that used pop-up blockers at the time probably never heard of Beenz :]

@dacypher22 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

owo what's this?

@kkloikok 4 жыл бұрын

What a primitive time. Conducting bartering with beens. The 90s was a scary time.

@jaredgraywest 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@HappyLarry. Жыл бұрын

The parallels to bitcoin is pretty wild, even down to the dipping in cost/use and the fondness of criminals

@joshreiman 4 жыл бұрын

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!

@sadvec6328 4 жыл бұрын

Me and the boys on '98 looking for some *BEENZ*

@puffylinux8653 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Same, it's kinda fascinating looking back at this thing in a post crypto post NFT world

@mae_day3189 3 жыл бұрын

"Cast your mind back to 1998" Me, born after 2000: Ah yes

@colonelk3000 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

I don't remember beanz either. This video is the first time ive heard of beanz.

@hgbugalou 4 жыл бұрын

I don't remember it because I was too young to have a regular income and cash was still king in my world.

@danguy2009 4 жыл бұрын

Same, I don't remember it neither.

@BubblegumLightsaber 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

I spent at least a day of my life learning to make web pages for WAP. I want my day back.