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
    @petrolhead0387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3033

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      that's hillarious

    • @tonoornottono
      @tonoornottono ปีที่แล้ว +207

      you’re evil that’s so funny

    • @TopazTK
      @TopazTK ปีที่แล้ว +54

      I mean, Jeeves was real, kinda.

    • @Rhombusreal
      @Rhombusreal ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      @@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.

  • @KhaiJbach
    @KhaiJbach 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3749

    "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 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Are you saying Nectar hyperinflated?

    • @justas423
      @justas423 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

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

    • @cbomb60
      @cbomb60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +295

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

    • @Connotative
      @Connotative 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@justas423 its 500 quintillion

    • @pikatheminecrafter
      @pikatheminecrafter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

  • @gioiacobucci
    @gioiacobucci 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2378

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

    • @bench3248
      @bench3248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      flooz gang ouuh

    • @mikevids8107
      @mikevids8107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

    • @garf6394
      @garf6394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Frick flooz all my homies hate flooz

    • @hourenschaiss2
      @hourenschaiss2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

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

    • @nothx2845
      @nothx2845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hourenschaiss2 its nOt oNlY mOrRoCan 😡

  • @StoneWeevil
    @StoneWeevil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +312

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

  • @spartonberry
    @spartonberry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4333

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

    • @Walter_
      @Walter_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Depends on who you ask.

    • @32BitLink
      @32BitLink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      2.50 is a cheap price for people

    • @FiresplitterX
      @FiresplitterX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

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

    • @Mikey-zk5wc
      @Mikey-zk5wc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@32BitLink hey, not in the 1800!

    • @wdfghjkl
      @wdfghjkl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I been thinking bout thos beans

  • @gabrielkellar1935
    @gabrielkellar1935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5911

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

    • @Marshtard
      @Marshtard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +262

      **laughs in ToonTown Online**

    • @Funkoh
      @Funkoh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      *laughs in high school lunch trade*

    • @full-timepog6844
      @full-timepog6844 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Has beenz

    • @emmanuellopez3471
      @emmanuellopez3471 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

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

    • @cupcakethesabertooth6802
      @cupcakethesabertooth6802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      *B E E N Z*

  • @tnaz8280
    @tnaz8280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +409

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

    • @RandomTRandomReal
      @RandomTRandomReal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *b e e n z*

    • @Alibm80
      @Alibm80 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @tnaz8280
      @tnaz8280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @antidevgodot
      @antidevgodot ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tnaz8280 Lol

    • @Olflix
      @Olflix 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @DashingSteel
    @DashingSteel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +541

    "This man of colour is investing in Beanz!"

    • @Jack-nn6gn
      @Jack-nn6gn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      "in a movie theater no less!!"

    • @Tauva
      @Tauva 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

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

    • @RabidlyTaboo
      @RabidlyTaboo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

    • @WonderfulBoness
      @WonderfulBoness 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@RabidlyTaboo wot

    • @yoursexualizedgrandparents6929
      @yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @RockandrollNegro
    @RockandrollNegro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2702

    I had almost enough beenz to buy a Dreamcast. Then beenz went away and I had to use real money to buy a PS2.

  • @The_Soda_Man
    @The_Soda_Man 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3118

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

    • @jermafan111
      @jermafan111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +270

      You have earned 150 beenz for this comment.

    • @rainbowhat4990
      @rainbowhat4990 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz

    • @darkcoeficient
      @darkcoeficient 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

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

    • @Dumb_Killjoy
      @Dumb_Killjoy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@darkcoeficient Been?

    • @dracenmarx
      @dracenmarx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @Dainted9608
    @Dainted9608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    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

  • @hfontanez98
    @hfontanez98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Likely bcuz it was utter crap

  • @blackoverblueskies6221
    @blackoverblueskies6221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4471

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

    • @KJ7QLV
      @KJ7QLV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      Didn't all apps look like that in 1999?

    • @ComradeTiki
      @ComradeTiki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

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

    • @blackoverblueskies6221
      @blackoverblueskies6221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

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

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cythil pretty sure it was a joke

    • @Cythil
      @Cythil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@wolfzmusic9706 So was my lame response ;)

  • @EmulsionTime
    @EmulsionTime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2751

    "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 ปีที่แล้ว +127

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

    • @prof298
      @prof298 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

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

    • @wulf7744
      @wulf7744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @ryan-heath
      @ryan-heath 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      AfroUchiha neither the video, only the comments.

    • @riplix20
      @riplix20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

  • @tehbeanz5062
    @tehbeanz5062 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

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

  • @takemehome5749
    @takemehome5749 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

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

  • @the-hd5cx
    @the-hd5cx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4984

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

    • @MegaIanlee
      @MegaIanlee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Rudy wyjaśnia mema 1.1k likes heh

    • @jazz21977
      @jazz21977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I liked 404 better ;P

    • @cullbear55
      @cullbear55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      🅱️ E E N Z

    • @spythetired
      @spythetired 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@cullbear55 y e s

    • @ZaHandle
      @ZaHandle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imperial Spy 🅱️ Y E S

  • @MisterSouji
    @MisterSouji 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2292

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

    • @kittycat-sc7je
      @kittycat-sc7je 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      *þat

    • @varikvalefor3773
      @varikvalefor3773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      kitty cat?: The thorn character is deprecated.

    • @electroflame6188
      @electroflame6188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@kittycat-sc7je */ðæʔ/

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @RadicalEdward2
    @RadicalEdward2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@archive94capacash I believe

  • @CapsUnlocked
    @CapsUnlocked 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

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

    • @richiesahlin6409
      @richiesahlin6409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jokes on you, I'm on mobile.

    • @woofy1988
      @woofy1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally checked mine before rewinding the video XD

    • @bloodhound1182
      @bloodhound1182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WAIT OK I THOUGHT IW AS FUCKING CRAZY

    • @gabrielvieira6529
      @gabrielvieira6529 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ?

  • @dandanthedandan7558
    @dandanthedandan7558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1532

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +86

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

    • @cesarcastillo7129
      @cesarcastillo7129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Sanelicv calla peruano

    • @greengreen110
      @greengreen110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ah, hello fellow time traveler

    • @lajenehuen260
      @lajenehuen260 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Sanelicv Argentina starts using beenz when?

    • @catnium
      @catnium 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      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.

  • @Lee-fw5bd
    @Lee-fw5bd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it is iconography?

    • @Lee-fw5bd
      @Lee-fw5bd ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@taffyadam6031 what?

    • @weightedtraininggear
      @weightedtraininggear ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @Lee-fw5bd
      @Lee-fw5bd ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @LoopyLongplays
    @LoopyLongplays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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

    • @gabrielrobinson1279
      @gabrielrobinson1279 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ejakalana20
    @ejakalana20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

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

  • @rikkisan1
    @rikkisan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +805

    Me and the boys in 1999 looking for Beenz

    • @claudiolluberes111
      @claudiolluberes111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @rikkisan1
      @rikkisan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

    • @PikaPerfect
      @PikaPerfect 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @rikkisan1
      @rikkisan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @budgiethedutchangeldragon782
      @budgiethedutchangeldragon782 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao

  • @tonchito1449
    @tonchito1449 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1305

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

    • @robloxmandude3641
      @robloxmandude3641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ba dum chhh

    • @ikaros4203
      @ikaros4203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • @Dantastic
      @Dantastic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jack let us all down.

    • @Itried20takennames
      @Itried20takennames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Korichiro Nichiyōbi Good one.

    • @defaultdan7923
      @defaultdan7923 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      IKAROS 420 fuck i was 4 months too late

  • @Bubbles-od2zm
    @Bubbles-od2zm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

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

    • @putraduha3176
      @putraduha3176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hmm warm folicle

    • @MrDoe-nw4ev
      @MrDoe-nw4ev 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @og.K7
      @og.K7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrDoe-nw4ev wut

    • @MrDoe-nw4ev
      @MrDoe-nw4ev 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @ZenoDovahkiin
      @ZenoDovahkiin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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

  • @kingd8232
    @kingd8232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    "THIS USER INVESTING IN BEENZ"

  • @Engineer12798
    @Engineer12798 4 ปีที่แล้ว +354

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Engineer12798 better then linking it to Google plus

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now you have 150 likes.

    • @Pouzdraken
      @Pouzdraken 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Arcademan09
    @Arcademan09 4 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's exactly what i was thinking of.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What episode is that?

    • @Arcademan09
      @Arcademan09 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@KnakuanaRka "The Great Recession"

    • @MasterOfKnowledge.
      @MasterOfKnowledge. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Paddy's Dollars: Gone, but not forgotten

    • @giga9955
      @giga9955 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

  • @gcsgamingcommunity4087
    @gcsgamingcommunity4087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

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

    • @whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544
      @whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You existed as a single cell

    • @ca-ke9493
      @ca-ke9493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I existed for exactly 2 days

    • @Bad_Gazpacho
      @Bad_Gazpacho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @RandomTRandomReal
      @RandomTRandomReal 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • @AmbrosiusAmaimon
    @AmbrosiusAmaimon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

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

  • @arkatub
    @arkatub 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1730

    I put all my money in beenz and ignored bitcoin.

    • @ryanmalin
      @ryanmalin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

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

    • @Tofu3435
      @Tofu3435 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Beenz to the moon, hodl beenz

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Outstanding move!

    • @IxodesPersulcatus
      @IxodesPersulcatus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      At least people don't hate your guts.

    • @xplinux22
      @xplinux22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

  • @doncarlin9081
    @doncarlin9081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    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.

  • @tedlovejesus
    @tedlovejesus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    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

  • @TheLiverpoolDelta
    @TheLiverpoolDelta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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.

  • @roostergentry
    @roostergentry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1637

    Beenz kinda sounds like a weird precursor to crypto currencies

    • @MelodieOctavia
      @MelodieOctavia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +171

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

    • @truelethal1771
      @truelethal1771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

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

    • @mz7316
      @mz7316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Well, Libra is basically that.

    • @isaacbailey3681
      @isaacbailey3681 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

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

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Beenzcoin!

  • @hobbswindrod
    @hobbswindrod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1502

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

    • @deltan6212
      @deltan6212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Im guessing you werent the brightest kid in History class.

    • @hobbswindrod
      @hobbswindrod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

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

    • @hobbswindrod
      @hobbswindrod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      Wait why tf would I learn about beenz

    • @Fuckblmfuckpalestine
      @Fuckblmfuckpalestine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

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

    • @chi7087
      @chi7087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

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

  • @aterack833
    @aterack833 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

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

  • @daniexists6
    @daniexists6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @W0lfbaneShikaisc00l
    @W0lfbaneShikaisc00l 4 ปีที่แล้ว +353

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

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Pawn-Beenz Schemes.

    • @SantiagoAbud
      @SantiagoAbud 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe that was the reason.

    • @lotus_flower2001
      @lotus_flower2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I creamed

    • @YirbyBond00Y
      @YirbyBond00Y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SeaJay_Oceans Scheemz

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @Hammerhead547
    @Hammerhead547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    "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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *beenztalk

  • @em84c
    @em84c 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    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.

  • @Stereo6400
    @Stereo6400 4 ปีที่แล้ว +186

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

    • @BirdEgg123
      @BirdEgg123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      underrated

    • @soda3185
      @soda3185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      overrated, the "nobody XD" was unnecessary.

    • @lotus_flower2001
      @lotus_flower2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @pizzarella985
      @pizzarella985 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

  • @FUnazis
    @FUnazis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Hes still working on it be patient

    • @fordid42
      @fordid42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      _"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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he had his fortune in beenz

    • @SpiffingNZ
      @SpiffingNZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Time stamp not found.

  • @BubbafromSapperton
    @BubbafromSapperton 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1618

    Now they're "has-beenz" 🤣

    • @liteknight
      @liteknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @bshpev
      @bshpev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

    • @Rudofaux
      @Rudofaux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      (standing ovation)

    • @johncenaplayingstarcraft9580
      @johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Listen here you fr*cking sh*thead

    • @TechnoMinarchistBall
      @TechnoMinarchistBall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean, calling themselves Beenz was their first mistake

  • @copyrightclaim3541
    @copyrightclaim3541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

  • @talkingtechnically
    @talkingtechnically 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

    • @_nom_
      @_nom_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Never heard of swagbucks. O.o

  • @TheKd8lvt
    @TheKd8lvt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +309

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

    • @Jay-uu5lu
      @Jay-uu5lu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wtf is discord

    • @poble
      @poble 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @radish6691
      @radish6691 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Poble II Wtf is Skype?

    • @Explosivewaveofnut
      @Explosivewaveofnut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@radish6691 a
      Please tell me if you are joking

    • @Explosivewaveofnut
      @Explosivewaveofnut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @comradebusman3
    @comradebusman3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

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

  • @marcar9marcar972
    @marcar9marcar972 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @lvlheadedrebel
    @lvlheadedrebel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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

  • @PeeperSnail
    @PeeperSnail 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    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.

  • @ucankushincorporations1318
    @ucankushincorporations1318 4 ปีที่แล้ว +667

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

    • @Skylarr
      @Skylarr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      i was so confused lmao

    • @SoaringMoon
      @SoaringMoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Same

    • @eyesofnova
      @eyesofnova 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      dude, I checked my laptop for a new message lol

    • @hakemon
      @hakemon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @EStarstruck
      @EStarstruck 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      got me, too

  • @uirusux
    @uirusux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @SpunkMcKullins
    @SpunkMcKullins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    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
    @98JSB 4 ปีที่แล้ว +404

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      This was probably just before or right after Episode I.

    • @AximVidya
      @AximVidya 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @genghisconn7770
      @genghisconn7770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @Marshtard
      @Marshtard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      obligatory comment saying "at least the music is good"

  • @Elvan-Lady
    @Elvan-Lady 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    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.

  • @quietusplus1221
    @quietusplus1221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @pinchraccoonproductions2100
    @pinchraccoonproductions2100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @Mario583a
    @Mario583a 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

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

  • @max9739
    @max9739 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

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

  • @Patrick.Weightman
    @Patrick.Weightman ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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

  • @fauchsil
    @fauchsil ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @generalpsyduck2624
    @generalpsyduck2624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +257

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

    • @eljakimdeclerck1941
      @eljakimdeclerck1941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Havron
      @Havron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@eljakimdeclerck1941 *satiation

  • @MadameSomnambule
    @MadameSomnambule 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Paypal started as a beenz competitor, who knew?

    • @Aevilbeast
      @Aevilbeast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brony? Or a MLP fan?

    • @RabidlyTaboo
      @RabidlyTaboo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@BlvckMidas a small loan of a million blacks

    • @YourAverageMulti
      @YourAverageMulti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@firestone181 They're practically the same thing lmao

  • @SystemID9
    @SystemID9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video. I remember collecting Beenz as a kid.

  • @puffylinux8653
    @puffylinux8653 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @NANNO_FMBY
    @NANNO_FMBY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Me and the boys at 2am looking for some BEENZ

  • @ghilliem.g.5824
    @ghilliem.g.5824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +606

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

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@HappyBeezerStudios :(

    • @Anafyral666
      @Anafyral666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We should make it a thing again

    • @catplayingapiano2799
      @catplayingapiano2799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      uma delicia

    • @lowfn
      @lowfn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HappyBeezerStudios ​ Scientia Enigma
      The joke

  • @Alayric
    @Alayric 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Cool Beenz video! Well documented.

  • @onewhosaysgoose4831
    @onewhosaysgoose4831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    "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 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That doesn’t ship to Canada so you have to walk 8 blocks to the physical

    • @mdramey6182
      @mdramey6182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Etzy

    • @informalnarwhals
      @informalnarwhals 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I like that you simplified 1000's of websites into one point just to make yourself sound right.

    • @theFonzii
      @theFonzii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hairypancake fr this dude does not know what hes talking about

  • @romanbukins6527
    @romanbukins6527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    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!*

  • @Lunchpacked180
    @Lunchpacked180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    someone didn't hate starwars enough to keep ihatestarwars alive

    • @Deliveredmean42
      @Deliveredmean42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @CardboardSliver
      @CardboardSliver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It should come back.

    • @jhlc1235
      @jhlc1235 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Feeble Bastard no u

  • @sagacious03
    @sagacious03 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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!

  • @onadaTotihotiH
    @onadaTotihotiH ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @westganton
    @westganton 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

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

    • @c5ys543
      @c5ys543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      dammit now that you mention it, it does

    • @jackdavenport5011
      @jackdavenport5011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It’s just spelt really stupidly

    • @infernix2k
      @infernix2k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I didn’t notice, but it does

  • @Roxas09202
    @Roxas09202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

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

    • @klausstock8020
      @klausstock8020 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @holderian0
    @holderian0 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for spilling the beans on this topic

  • @TheClintonio
    @TheClintonio ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @brux357
    @brux357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    “2000: le beenz”

  • @GBlastMan
    @GBlastMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @nihilvox
      @nihilvox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      esseubot DUDE ME TOO WE NEEED IT

  • @Thrifty032781
    @Thrifty032781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @mae_day3189
    @mae_day3189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @JasonSchoeman
    @JasonSchoeman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Aaah those days - When Google's slogan still was - Do no evil. How things have changed.

    • @crunchychips8123
      @crunchychips8123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      "Don't be evil".

    • @andymadden8183
      @andymadden8183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Actually, it was "Don't Be Evil". They quietly removed it from their code of ethics a few years ago.

    • @vurpo7080
      @vurpo7080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      "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 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It was never a policy. Google has always been evil.

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Shardion I don't trust the tor network. Otherwise, yeah.

  • @PunkTiger
    @PunkTiger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @dacypher22
      @dacypher22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      owo what's this?

  • @toastymuffin4153
    @toastymuffin4153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @AlexisTwoLastNames
    @AlexisTwoLastNames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video :) and the logo competition segment made me actually laugh, cuz wtf 😂

  • @joshreiman
    @joshreiman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    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!

  • @princessSawa
    @princessSawa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    love how the captions changed "crap" to "not good" lmao

    • @RandomBrick13
      @RandomBrick13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      they changed to "good" on my end lmao

  • @EeveeFromAlmia
    @EeveeFromAlmia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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

  • @FitzPenn
    @FitzPenn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

  • @justas423
    @justas423 4 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    TL;DR The Great beenz Depression ruined everything

  • @colonelk3000
    @colonelk3000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @hgbugalou
      @hgbugalou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same, I don't remember it neither.

    • @BubblegumLightsaber
      @BubblegumLightsaber 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @funkytime69
    @funkytime69 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    at least everyone learned from their mistakes and never made another fake online currency again. that would be cringe

  • @YYAT
    @YYAT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @OkSharkey
    @OkSharkey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    I;m thinking about thos Beenz

  • @p0tatob0ys
    @p0tatob0ys 4 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    '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 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@foxmcleod Here's an incredible revelation. I did.

    • @foxmcleod
      @foxmcleod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@p0tatob0ys and you still didn't manage to grasp what he meant. Well done. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

    • @p0tatob0ys
      @p0tatob0ys 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@foxmcleod Always a pleasure o' wise and great keyboard warrior.

    • @spud3149
      @spud3149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wow.. Dick.

  • @arnoio8355
    @arnoio8355 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for spilling the beenz to me, pretty neat stuff

  • @gtf9733
    @gtf9733 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some healthy Beenz Bars at the end there.🤣 Good job as always