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.
@@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.
"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")
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :-)
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.
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.
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.
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"
I am so, so happy you posted that clip from the Real World because that has been burned into my brain for years and I could never find it because I couldn't remember his name nor the season it was from. I'll never forget the one chick's reaction. You have done me a great service on this day. Thank you.
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.
Sound like “They we’re handing out Molly’s and slipping flyers in people’s pockets” at 7:25 ish. I imagine waking up from an Ecstasy hangover with my pockets full of beanz lol.
I explicitly waited to finish the video to see what the message was... Two problems.. 1) The blip was in the video... 2) My Discord is ALWAYS muted... Fuck xD
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
The lack of a reference to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies is obscenely odd. I mean this entire operation sounds exactly like one of those "non Scam" ICO's that fell apart during a bubble burst. It's one of the original ICO's...
"Are your friends worth 250 beenz?" A question we should ask ourselves each day.
Depends on who you ask.
2.50 is a cheap price for people
I mean, if Mr. Krabs could sell Spongebob's soul for 62 cents, who am I to argue?
@@32BitLink hey, not in the 1800!
I been thinking bout thos beans
Just when I got used to hearing “beenz”, they hit me with “flooz”
flooz gang ouuh
Just when I though I was out, they drag me back in.
Frick flooz all my homies hate flooz
In the moroccan dialect of arabic “ Fo'lou'ss فلوس “ pronounced "flooz" actually means "money".
@@hourenschaiss2 its nOt oNlY mOrRoCan 😡
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.
that's hillarious
you’re evil that’s so funny
I mean, Jeeves was real, kinda.
Idk maybe im a bit too empathetic but i just kinda feel like you were a dick to your grandparents for no reason
@@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.
I had almost enough beenz to buy a Dreamcast. Then beenz went away and I had to use real money to buy a PS2.
same
how many beenz?
oof
rip
this is the most Year 2000 sentence on youtube i've seen
What's your paypal bro?
*SORRY I ONLY USE BEENZ*
@Rudy wyjaśnia mema 1.1k likes heh
I liked 404 better ;P
🅱️ E E N Z
@@cullbear55 y e s
Oh I'm Sorry
*WHAT'S YOUR BEENZ BRO?*
"Do you take card?" "No, only beenz"
*b e e n z*
Oh no. I’ll find a grocery store and come back. 🙄
once again another unfunny comment that has come back to haunt me
@@tehtnaz Lol
And it will haunt you again 2 years later@@tehtnaz
"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...."
Are you saying Nectar hyperinflated?
@@pikatheminecrafter dude that number is like a trillion. Definitely hyperinflation
500 quintillion Nectar Points really is a dream
You could buy at least two bags of crisps with that
@@justas423 its 500 quintillion
@@Connotative it's 500 long trillion, but I don't think most people use long numbers.
Beenz looks like an app that’ll make you fill out surveys
Didn't all apps look like that in 1999?
@@KJ7QLV Hello, I'm from 1999. What's an app?
Kyle Freed I meant to write "Today's Beenz app"
Cythil pretty sure it was a joke
@@wolfzmusic9706 So was my lame response ;)
"This man of colour is investing in Beanz!"
"in a movie theater no less!!"
While watching the second installation in a trilogy of films about talking automobiles
"This woman of color is investing in flooz!"
damn gender politics
@@RabidlyTaboo wot
"This colored male of African descent is earning an online currency called beenz."
Imagine living in a world where the name of currency is beenz
**laughs in ToonTown Online**
*laughs in high school lunch trade*
Has beenz
Imagine living in a world owed by a entity named GUUGELE.
*B E E N Z*
The fact that it was called "Beenz" makes me want to throw a brick through a window.
You have earned 150 beenz for this comment.
beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz beenz
Why throw a perfectly good brick when you can defenestrate a perfectly useless beenz?
@@darkcoeficient Been?
This is one of the best and most fitting comments I've ever seen, seriously!
My God look at all that late 90s web design
It's beautiful
"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")
They didn’t deserve it, but it happened anyway.
He explains in the description that it's what the list he found called it.
@@prof298 its 2020 people are still reading the description?
AfroUchiha neither the video, only the comments.
@@wulf7744 its 2020 and people still don't read descriptions?
I'm still waiting to trade my beenz in for that Dreamcast
*þat
kitty cat?: The thorn character is deprecated.
@@kittycat-sc7je */ðæʔ/
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
Jivan Scarano: "Thee" and "thou" are singular, and "you" and "ye" are plural.
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
I think the modern equivalent would be bitcoin
Wait, you've never paid cash or card?
Always has beenz
@@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo no, it would not. bitcoin is its own trash
Deez beanz
Lmao the name choice for a revolutionary currency 🥲 smh
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
Greetings from Perú, Beenz are our official currency since 2002.
@@Sanelicv calla peruano
ah, hello fellow time traveler
@@Sanelicv Argentina starts using beenz when?
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.
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
it is iconography?
@@taffyadam6031 what?
@@Lee-fw5bd they're being snarky about you using it's instead of its
@@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
I was a terminally online kid in the 90s and beyond and I never heard of beenz before either
I am almost 52 years old. I've been using the Internet since 1991. How in the hell did I miss out on this?
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.
Likely bcuz it was utter crap
I guess you could say:
The Beenz’ stock...
Never sprouted.
ba dum chhh
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Jack let us all down.
Korichiro Nichiyōbi Good one.
IKAROS 420 fuck i was 4 months too late
Beenz kinda sounds like a weird precursor to crypto currencies
I wonder if Beenz will ever come back as a sort of corporate friendly crypto.
same thing I thought. reminds me a little of brave browser rewards
@@mz7316 Except run by Facebook and thus more flawed.
Beenzcoin!
Man I'd love to mine some Beenz
7:08
"le beenz"
man dies of laughter in his house
The 'le' brainrot is real 😂 My favorite type of brainrot back in the day!
Me and the boys in 1999 looking for Beenz
Thanks dude, I thought for a second I wouldn't find a comment like this down here.
@@claudiolluberes111 i didnt see any...so duty called lol
your avatar is scary similar to the bad dragon logo and if that wasn't intentional, i'm sorry
@@PikaPerfect No, its the emblem of the Salamanders from Warhammer 40k....you heretic.
Lmao
I put all my money in beenz and ignored bitcoin.
Flooz was better. You could wash dirty money easy with that one
Beenz to the moon, hodl beenz
Outstanding move!
At least people don't hate your guts.
@@とふこ They should bring it back as a new cryptocurrency. 1 BNZ = 1 BNZ!
this takes a whole new meaning for "me and the boys at 2 am looking for beenz"
I forgot to link my youtube account with my beenz account, so I couldn't get the free 150 beenz for watching this video.
Engineer12798 better then linking it to Google plus
Now you have 150 likes.
If that could happen, I’d probably have like millions of beenz a year to spend
help
Now they're "has-beenz" 🤣
I was disappointed Nostalgia Nerd didn't make this joke, ngl.
fuckin'... that pun hurt. You win Internet points... they're worth less than beenz.
(standing ovation)
Listen here you fr*cking sh*thead
I mean, calling themselves Beenz was their first mistake
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.
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.
@@archive94capacash I believe
14:53 i thought the discord sound was from me
there is also one more at 21:23
i was so confused lmao
Same
dude, I checked my laptop for a new message lol
I was looking over at my Discord confused, then I realized it was picked up on his side. Absolutely hilarious.
got me, too
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.
Me - How much is that book?
Fred & George - 100 Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Yes of course my brain still remembers this game from nearly 2 decades ago, and specifically that line, why wouldn't it?
Reminds me of It's Always Sunny when Mac and Dennis make their own currency but completely misunderstood how the economy works
That's exactly what i was thinking of.
What episode is that?
@@KnakuanaRka "The Great Recession"
Paddy's Dollars: Gone, but not forgotten
It’s a self sustaining economy; we need more Paddy’s dollars !
Beenz... Schemes... Redeem... and themes...
so many rhyming possibilities... a marketers wet dream.
Pawn-Beenz Schemes.
Maybe that was the reason.
I creamed
@@SeaJay_Oceans Scheemz
@@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.
i spent a whole 30 seconds checking all my discord groups because of 14:53 so thats kinda epic
Same
was looking for this comment
the Beenz discord is popping
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.
This was probably just before or right after Episode I.
Well, star wars 1-3 were almost as bad as 7-9 are, so I can understand the hate.
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
@Ralof Of Riverwood yeah it was actually fun to watch unlike the snorefests that were Episode 1 and 2
obligatory comment saying "at least the music is good"
"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.
*beenztalk
14:54 You just made a lot of people check their discord.
Jokes on you, I'm on mobile.
Totally checked mine before rewinding the video XD
WAIT OK I THOUGHT IW AS FUCKING CRAZY
?
I just watched twenty minutes about something that wasn’t even in my lifetime that I didn’t even know existed
Im guessing you werent the brightest kid in History class.
Deltan no I was born in 2007 and we haven’t cover the 90s yet lol
Wait why tf would I learn about beenz
@@hobbswindrod don't listen to that stupid ass I was born in this era and didn't know of it
Deltan LOL why tf would a history class take time out of a lesson plan to talk about a failed precursor to crypto currency?
The fact I've never heard of beenz is a telling sign on how this will end.
1:19
I can't watch that without thinking about the YTP constantly.
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.
the first crypto currency was B E E N Z
im so proud of this comunity
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.
@@HappyBeezerStudios :(
We should make it a thing again
uma delicia
@@HappyBeezerStudios Scientia Enigma
The joke
"THIS USER INVESTING IN BEENZ"
You all laughed at me when I bought those three magic beenz.
*Who's laughing now?!?!*
You.
Yes I was on the chess team...
14:55
Video: *discord noise*
Me: *eyes flick down to taskbar*
Discord: "Nope, false alarm, continue about your day."
Wtf is discord
@@Jay-uu5lu it's like skype but better
Poble II Wtf is Skype?
@@radish6691 a
Please tell me if you are joking
@@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.
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.
Paypal started as a beenz competitor, who knew?
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...
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
Brony? Or a MLP fan?
@@BlvckMidas a small loan of a million blacks
@@firestone181 They're practically the same thing lmao
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!
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.
This just simply made me say "Beenz" repeatedly until it lost all meaning.
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
I do that with a lot of words, I don't know what English is anymore.
@@eljakimdeclerck1941 *satiation
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.
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.
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!*
*Frikkin
"they all got scared and started selling their beenz" - Hey, i've seen this one before, its a classic!
One of the best documentaries/essays on the site. I come back to it from time to time.
They had an Beenz rap? really? but of course they had it was the 90's everything had a rap song at that time
I'm trying to find that rap for an hour to no luck. sadly.
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.
esseubot DUDE ME TOO WE NEEED IT
The name 'Beenz' pisses me off and I don't know why
dammit now that you mention it, it does
It’s just spelt really stupidly
I didn’t notice, but it does
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
TL;DR The Great beenz Depression ruined everything
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.
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 :-)
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.
I'm guessing any of us that used pop-up blockers at the time probably never heard of Beenz :]
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.
owo what's this?
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.
that bus advertisment at 7:20 shows singapore circa 2000....and I NEVER heard of beenz even though I'm singaporean.....
Yep, the National Day Parade banner with the Moon and Five Stars confirms it too...
man, closed captions are the best.
"... teetering on the edge.
[Peaceful but telling notes]"
“Cast your mind back to 1998.”
Me: *was born in 2001* “okay”
Hmm warm folicle
Back to the sack with you. I'm off to my nap
@@MrDoe-nw4ev wut
@@og.K7 I was a toddler he was an egg
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
I can already hear Ron yelling: ”A BEAN”. Thank you ‘Kevin’ (cmk) for ruining my internet immersion .
Great video as always
Really, the reason Ron was so excited over beans is because he kept confusing them for Beenz.
'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...'
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"
@@foxmcleod Here's an incredible revelation. I did.
@@p0tatob0ys and you still didn't manage to grasp what he meant. Well done. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
@@foxmcleod Always a pleasure o' wise and great keyboard warrior.
Wow.. Dick.
Surprised at the lack of “this _ eating beans” related comments
this nigga eating beans
a nigga eat bean
Dis nigga eatin beenz
God out is mind blowing how much changed on the internet in that time period from say 1998 to 2003, only 5 years, compared to today.
I am so, so happy you posted that clip from the Real World because that has been burned into my brain for years and I could never find it because I couldn't remember his name nor the season it was from. I'll never forget the one chick's reaction. You have done me a great service on this day. Thank you.
What an interesting video on a topic with absolutely no modern-day parallels
I;m thinking about thos Beenz
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beeb
someone didn't hate starwars enough to keep ihatestarwars alive
If that was around 2018, we could seen a cult following lol
It should come back.
@Feeble Bastard no u
These videos are so in-depth. Loving this channel (watching the backlog atm, discovered it past week)
WHERE CAN I FIND THE SONG AT THE END??
YKNOW, THE BEENZ.COM WILD WILD WEST COVER? THATS LIKE AN ACTUAL BOP
Same, I am looking all over for that shit. Please let me know.
I need the Beenz rap in my life
Wow Wow.
putting this here as a bookmark for me to get notified when it’s found
Bookmark for the beenz rap
Aaah those days - When Google's slogan still was - Do no evil. How things have changed.
"Don't be evil".
Actually, it was "Don't Be Evil". They quietly removed it from their code of ethics a few years ago.
"Don't be evil" is still in their code of conduct, but they have moved it from the top to the bottom.
It was never a policy. Google has always been evil.
@Shardion I don't trust the tor network. Otherwise, yeah.
This reopened a memory I completely forgot I had. I feel like I saw these in magazines as adverts when I was a kid.
This business model was actually so rad. Marketing to consumers but gaining profit from companies is pretty interesting and unique.
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.
“2000: le beenz”
*LE MONKE*
Le troll face
Le epic
Targét: The French department store
"Cast your brain back to 1998"
cool, so I don't exist
You existed as a single cell
I existed for exactly 2 days
Y'all talking like 1998 was a long time ago. I mean it's been only twent... oh. Oh no.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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
I don't remember beanz either. This video is the first time ive heard of beanz.
I don't remember it because I was too young to have a regular income and cash was still king in my world.
Same, I don't remember it neither.
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.
I spent at least a day of my life learning to make web pages for WAP.
I want my day back.
Sound like “They we’re handing out Molly’s and slipping flyers in people’s pockets” at 7:25 ish. I imagine waking up from an Ecstasy hangover with my pockets full of beanz lol.
Wow, it's almost like the concept of internet based currency with zero actual value will always be doomed to failure. *Cough cough*
But it sure is fun watching all the crypto bros loose their life savings in nft scams & grifts lol
Been using, and working with the internet since 1996, never heard of Beenz
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.
@@Brando56894 strange, legitimately never heard of them. Nice piece of internet history though.
Same here.
Yep, lived on the internet as a kid at that time and always looked at all the deals and schemes. Never heard of beenz.
Mandela Effect!
"cast your mind back to 1993"
Oh yes i love being a sperm cell
Oh yes, I love not even existing yet
Damn, I was 11 years old and not sure why girls were suddenly making me feel weird emotions I couldn't even name yet.
I feel old...
We’re simpler times back then I tell you whhat
@@Dargonhuman my peepee feels funny
@@deivisony Dude, come on, I was 11, I didn't use words like "peepee". I called it my "willie"...
Nobody:
218: le sesterce
1175: le denier
1795: le franc
2000: *_le beenz_*
underrated
overrated, the "nobody XD" was unnecessary.
@@BirdEgg123 "comment from the video"
Lol Xd so fuuuunnnnyyy!*!*!
@@lotus_flower2000 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.
Me and the boys at 2am looking for some BEENZ
Asking for BEENZ
at 14:50, i hope i wasn't the only one checking my discord there. rip.
Its starting to piss me off how often this happens in videos now.
I explicitly waited to finish the video to see what the message was...
Two problems..
1) The blip was in the video...
2) My Discord is ALWAYS muted...
Fuck xD
did he record music off stereo mix? how the heck did it even get in there
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
Same, it's kinda fascinating looking back at this thing in a post crypto post NFT world
I got Beenz as a Christmas bonus in 1999. Never redeemed them.
I'm glad to have been here to watch this.
Weirdly I can't remember beenz. Must have passed me by.
This is literally Swagbucks but with more innovation and less famous.
Never heard of swagbucks. O.o
What a primitive time. Conducting bartering with beens. The 90s was a scary time.
The lack of a reference to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies is obscenely odd. I mean this entire operation sounds exactly like one of those "non Scam" ICO's that fell apart during a bubble burst. It's one of the original ICO's...
Great video. I remember collecting Beenz as a kid.
Beenz meenz... Redeemz? Something doesn't sound right here...
then what about Mercedes-Benz
@@KokoroKatsura ?
I'm referring to the fact that "beanz meanz Heinz" was has been a thing since the dawn of time
@@KokoroKatsura can you buy one with Mercedes-Beenz?
Beenz, flooz? Awful brand names that could only have succeeded in the 90s.
The Z makes it cool
We have Honey today so maybe Beenz wasn't that bad of a name, Flooz though ewww.
@@antikommunistischaktion Honey at least has a nice, pleasant ring to it. If they would have called it leekz or brokoli it wouldn't be much better.
i guess "my space" was just doomed to the early 2000's aka post 90s
cursed images , cursed names
im looking at you kyles.
Flickr, tumblr, twitter, facebook. All terrible names. Never mind youtube. Yuck.
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
Proper information packed video Peter. I love these kind of videos. Just like watching Clint's Tech Tales, you learn something new everyday.
2:14 Thanks for the unexpected nostalgia. I also just remembered HotBot was a thing.
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
It's amazing, I'd completely forgotten about beenz. That is, at least, I don't think I'd thought about it in almost twenty years.