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Hah I called them magic beans yesterday! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524912
by warinukraine 4y ago
Hah I called them magic beans yesterday!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524912
- beansadding 4y agoBaldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4IQjUpTNVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4IQjUpTNVU
- sgt101 4y agoWe've been here a long time ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com
- simonjgreen 4y agoWow I had forgotten all about that. I remember a lot of hype in the dot-com era around that
- ArtWomb 4y agoThe NFTs of 1997: "etoy shares compel people to think about the elusive and amorphous nature of Internet art. One of the many controversies about Net art is that there is no original copy; an artist can’t exactly “sell” a home page to a collector. The “shares” play with the idea of ownership and the Net, as well as spoof absurdly overvalued Net stock" ;) https://www.villagevoice.com/1999/11/30/e-toy-story/ https://www.villagevoice.com/1999/11/30/e-toy-story/
- vba616 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com "In 2001, Flooz.com was notified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that a Russian-Filipino organized crime syndicate used $300,000 worth of Flooz and stolen credit card numbers as part of a money-laundering scheme, in which stolen credit cards were used to purchase currency and then redeemed.[2][3] Levitan has stated that fraudulent purchases accounted for 19% of consumer credit card transactions by mid-2001."