What Happened - 2001 Documentary

What Happened is a Documentary about the DotCom 1.0 era (1995-2000 market crash), created by Chas Mastin, Michael Lefort, Aldo Bello and a cast of characters in 2001-02. It features such luminaries as Marc Cuban and explains how investment banks helped create the 90's tech bubble. If you would like to hear the hilarious and tragic stories of companies like Boo.com, we have them straight from the workers on the front lines.

[@gasgano8255]

I was too young at that time to understand whats going on in the world, i think up until 9/11 i can't remember anything what happened in politics or economy and after that it's all people talked about. Only much much later i heard about this dotcom bubble and never quite knew what it was. So thank you very much for this documentary, you've done an excellent job.

[@KarlHamilton]

"Amazon could be as big as 10 Walmarts" Indeed.

[@tenand11]

that was when it was selling books only

[@testshoot]

Indeed could be as big as 10 LinkedIns!

[@cooldudecs]

@Abel B. Amazon is a bubble as well. It’s only major profit center is AWS

[@frederickhofmann843]

Well it’s 5x the market cap but good enough

[@frederickhofmann843]

@@cooldudecs Amazon doesn’t want to make a profit

[@zigzagbigbag]

Mark Cuban is one lucky guy. His company was ultra shit and really offered nothing with huge buffer issues. Yet he got bough because of fear. Fear from large companies worried they may miss out on the next big thing.

[@NickHiltermann]

You are 100% correct

[@BITCOIlN]

But he was on the right track - Twitch, but a decade too early like most of the dotcom companies.

[@jaredparsons9582]

This Documentary BLEW MY MIND! Just like he said it would.

[@gocsa]

This was a very well-made documentary, could have been made today.

[@aririyadh8359]

Yes I wonder how many lost money because some do nothing douche walked away from an overnight deal with millions of dollars, Oh wait their mom and dad did, or the neighbors. Fucking cunts.

[@NathanRyanAllen]

What's funny is all the claims about the internet turned out to be true, but it wasn't until smartphones and social media that everything exploded. The dot com bubble was 7-8 years early

[@tenand11]

@@NathanRyanAllen but business is not on that grand scale and not all companies succeeded

[@codeposse]

THANKS CHAS! That was fun to shoot. The good old days @30:10 I looked so thin!

[@nikhilgoyal007]

Tim Hunold and why is the guy accounts guy not entitled to sitting comfort like everyone else ?

[@codeposse]

Nikhil the irony of over spending on chairs.

[@aririyadh8359]

I bet everyone wants to shoot those net nerds building nothing but screen names.

[@BeAManPodkast]

You were wrong about the abbreviation of GIF btw. "Generalized Image Format" is not what the acronym stands for. It's Graphical Interchange Format...but I'm sure you've figured that out after all these years ;o). What are you doing these days anyways?

[@codeposse]

@@BeAManPodkast i know, i kinda wanted to have fun with this. After a screening so many people came up to me to "correct" me :p What did I do after? LinkedIn will tell. My avatar is my helmet at Google Venice where I spent time doing... things

[@TheForistality]

this is so well done, so nostalgic

[@OakhillSailor]

just finding this. very nostalgic

[@yusufhasaan8781]

We’re living in similar times now. The tech boom is on pause for at least 2 years.

[@MisterW99]

So they can build out the financial infrastructure. Blockchain Technology will be the Tech Boom 2.0…

[@Peterromer123]

Ahhh, it's you!!

[@MakeSushi1]

fascinating documentary

[@ebizmaster]

"It's like singing in the shower and thinking you're great. Everybody's singing in the shower and touching themselves and it feels good." - Mark Cuban

[@bobsmith2886]

They will be making an *Everything Bubble* documentary soon

[@cooldudecs]

It’s crazy... This bubble is going to be epic and devastating

[@cryptodutch1949]

1:20:32 Such wisdom. EDIT: great documentary by the way. Thanks Tamara, Chas and the crew!

[@smoothbeak]

Is it just me or were people a bit more alive and had a sense of humour back then!?

[@willmerr6222]

Well everyone is so fucking sensitive now a days. Go watch some movies from the 70's-80's. They are fucking awesome.

[@em4957]

everyone is so uptight and serious nowadays. people today want to be carbon copies of the braindead celebrities

[@jamesinman7364]

They were more alive and had a sense of humor.

[@sxdxex]

Technology has made us all dead inside.

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

People were the same as now, I actually lived through the late 90’s which were horrible in terms of pop culture. Fake commercialized teen pop crap, nothing like the 80’s / early 90’s. Funny that kids today are nostalgic over it!

[@karmatraining]

This documentary is A E S T H E T I C af

[@marcelprimes]

Derek Van Tonder BEST COMMENT 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mousehead2000]

just swap ipo for ico and this doc takes on a whole new meaning.

[@SiLoMixMaster]

So many similarities eh lol

[@Gr8thxAlot]

This was a great way to live the late 90's nostalgia. This documentary captures it all. I forgot that our company was supporting a coffee/bagel shop on its own. I still have a piece of furniture purchased at the liquidation auction. (Good quality.) Remember the "gif" "jif" arguments? I haven't heard those in a while. Nice job Chas, this was well done.

[@MrARozay]

very good documentary, very informative and amazing interviews!!

[@billmastin]

I love this... funny that it feels the same but a bit different in 2016

[@rah2023]

Are you still waiting for the crash?

[@preston3255]

Great documentary! Thanks for posting this.

[@LikaLaruku]

43:47 OMG Odd Todd. I knew it from 2007, but I didn't know it was THAT old. Dot Com monument? How about a huge abandoned multilevel office with the names of the companies that bombed the hardest? Used to have one where I lived.

[@jackwilliams1482]

What’s that breakbeat riddim on the intro Phatt 🤯

Awesome presentation👍☯️

[@toxickpopper1544]

2021 crypto bubble pop. take profits. Go to an island and profit life.

[@akakentiy]

2021 I hope you are right

[@TheRysumm]

It’s got a little longer to go. I give it 5 years. And it’ll only go down because of regulation.

[@jeanrenetournecuillert2449]

Random guy name cryptoTroll say an estimation and you belive it come on...

[@lldjwhyteell]

That’s my plan!!!

[@alyssac1739]

She might be right. Coming from february 2021 lol

[@Jpwinks]

Lol! I am sitting on an Aeron Chair right now! =D

[@StarsAndSticks]

Pretty good doc but not sure I needed the 3 minute segment on coffee and red bull

[@Ilovenikon]

Watching this in July 2020 Walmart market cap is now 337 B And Amazon market cap is ( drum Roll please ......) 1.44 T!!! With T

[@MisterW99]

History always rhymes. That cycle is getting ready to repeat

[@johnpersechini4951]

This is happening in ev alt energy and crypto today. Look at all the ipos popping. Scary. There won’t be dozens of ev winners. Tsla will be but lots of imitators will fail.

[@dickensmccain3129]

why tsla

[@TheForistality]

What happened??? this video was in HD 2 weeks ago, now its back to 480p.

[@NickHiltermann]

I'd be interested to hear from people in the know, whether this parallels the current crypto boom.

[@AustNerevar]

Great documentary, this here is.

[@LikaLaruku]

"East LA, taco burrito." Getting stuck in your head all day. "Everybody started drinking juice, then the market crashed." lol.

[@letrat7021]

the guy with the glasses is hilarious

[@rvm2622]

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[@Oduffman66]

holy moly... the lungfish discussion. Forgot about that one...

[@djhenyo]

LOL

[@blaaskat]

this is so funny, as this is exactly the cryptocurreny market #2017.

[@BeAManPodkast]

The point of peer to peer currency is to actually purchase things from other peers. People are just using it as an investment vehicle right now to make money. The bubble will pop...

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

The utility in Bitcoin is terrible. In terms of speed it's a joke compared to Raiblocks or Ripple. In terms of decentralisation, the vast majority of it is owned by groups in China, in terms of real world cost it's soaking up massive amounts of electricity to power the bit coin mining farms, in terms of anonymity it's beaten by Monero. There isn't a single advantage to bitcoin other than exchanges using it because it gained market dominance first but that dominance is disappearing to alt coins month on month. Anyone who is still praising Bitcoin has either never had to wait hours for it to transfer or has invested so much into it they can't stop.

[@RizzoDaManiac]

No, because Bitcoin, was never solely meant to be used as a peer-to-peer money transfer method. It's use was to replace gold, hence the purpose of a finite number of coins ever mineable. The goal was to have other crypto currencies that trade with it's value based on Bitcoin. As gold isn't a good medium for exchange, but the Dollar, backed on gold is easily transferable. The various new crypto currency start ups can be seen as new countries, with each of it's coin representing said coins (country) fiat currency. The countries that don't produce a strong GDP (Useful tech) loses value in its coin, but never does the entire system collapse based on a single event.

[@IkBenDigio]

just like websites were made in someone bedroom with no plan, the same is happening to cryptocurrencys. But just like 2000 the stocks are higher then ever but most failed.

[@shaqnoor5187]

lmao you commented this just before the price of BTC crashed 70%

[@BITCOIlN]

Damn, the nostalgia!

[@AlbinosaurusR3X]

Interesting that the Y2K scare was mentioned nowhere, because the financial skeptics were on point--that's true--but the public at large was fairly divided about the Y2K issue (largely born of ignorance), which resulted in a loss of faith on that front too.

[@chasmast]

AlbinosaurusR3X good point I think we considered having a segment on it but at that point in history it was a pretty well trodden tropic

[@AlbinosaurusR3X]

I can see how that would have been the opinion at the time. I think it's largely forgotten these days. It's not as if I expect anyone to recreate the video now, though. =)

[@davemail62]

xrp is the best digital asset ever created

[@samuellambert8919]

2:30 anyone knows what this awesome tune is?

[@WallaceBMcClure]

The recruiter named Penny Hart @aol dressed up in rather provocative attire trying to find people doing Visual Basic and asp programmers by walking up and down a line of people just cracks me up.

[@nickm7820]

So what new EV company is the next Netscap or theGlobe. com ?

[@Creukelen]

NKLA

[@pulseorca928]

Generalized Image Format - techies win.

[@joeyb5742]

Turns out Amazon did go to $1000.. sorry, 2000 lol

[@Greg073]

3000

[@EDGEMASTER84]

DAI sent me here.

[@dmitryk53]

The chair lady sold me

[@breezythegod3630]

1:12:00 Mark giving out top tier advice

[@breezythegod3630]

1:13:30 *

[@radovanseles9587]

Thank yiu.

[@alphabravo3566]

I swear I've seen this Suddu namakajo guy somewhere..

[@DavePopeMusic]

50:21 Amazing story.

[@YesEthan]

Cool doc. The guy with the hat and sunglasses was right on even 13 years later. And that modem description was an episode on South Park.

[@codeposse]

That is Dan Mapes. I thought he was crazy for a bit, turned out he was pretty accurate.

[@chasmast]

Tim Hunold you are correct as always

[@ananasshow]

I didn't find anything about Seddu on google, has he become rich?

[@darkvortex7]

2020 here we go again

[@hellwolf4liberty]

when sequel?

[@richiemello3447]

I have no idea what the hell im watching..... and I kinda like it

[@crashmonkeyz]

Thank you

[@LaughingStock71]

Well done, Sir!

[@XploitedEuter]

damnit, those subtitles are awesome :D

[@boxify8730]

I was born in 2001 I haven't a clue what society has come to now

[@jabrew85]

Anyone know the song at 42:00?

[@nikola8363]

What is the opening track?

[@TheGuesst]

The things we could say as a society 20 years ago was amazing. Young mark cuban is jarring.

[@tonyg3216]

Bubbles of this side tend to be generational hahhahahhahah. That’s a good one

[@gabrielw7773]

listening to Mark Cuban talk at the beginning sounds like he was talking about Bitcoin and the suckers that invest in it.

[@websitemaintenance]

So awesome!!

[@IKhanNot]

It is kind of annoying but it shows a different aspect. Usually you hear about the business side which is very important but it goes to show that juvenile behavior, overzealous investors, mismanagement, excess and public image took priority over business strategies, market research, ethics and HR practices which are key to success.

[@tomspeed3354]

sama as a crypto these days. figures even crazier

[@andrewTaylorCodes]

Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the widely used Web illustration, declared gif should be pronounced “jif,” like the brand of peanut butter, rather than with a hard G sound.

[@Vbbv22]

Drunken Punk 800 lol nobody says it like keltics

[@leeholmes9962]

You had the right letter c but in wasn't coffee it's COKE

[@b.c.5024]

1:22:06 . This documentary must have been made just before 9/11.

[@TimHunold]

+B. C. yeah, just barely

[@LikaLaruku]

Nope. Look at the list of reasons Odd Todd couldn't sleep in that clip from Laid Off. 44:24

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

Why?

[@testshoot]

@@LikaLaruku My clip on Aeron chairs was pre-9/11

[@leeholmes9962]

This is what you should use a big deflating bubble

[@zulquaranwar8256]

Eerily similar to the startup bubble 2015

[@maximumaxiom6823]

Is bitcoin next one?

[@allenw9746]

watching this just to know what is really happening in the crypto world

[@chrisf8293]

With these kinds of bubbles, there are always gems. Think Amazon, the people that invested 4 or 5k with them in 97, and didn't sell their shares, made a lot of money. Some are even millionaires. We'll just have to see how this crypto thing turns out. The general public really hasn't even caught wind of cryptos yet. When we start seeing documentaries and special reports circulating heavily, then we'll know that we're truly in the bubble stage for cryptos.

[@Sleknerps]

cryptos are dotcom bubble of our generation

[@Oh_You_Know_]

LOLOLOLOLOL Sorry had to. XRP is the standard though.

[@4Shaman]

@@Dwight511 Hhahaaha ok

[@ilarivaisanen]

Lol at first I smiled when they blamed coffee for the crash then it continued for full 5 minutes and I realised they were serious LMAO.. So pathetic it's actually awkward.

[@bitsnbytes7514]

@1:04:08 - "I believe the techies are the drones of the new order" I sure like the way you think, sir.

[@skipsassy1]

False: FY 2000 the high was March 10, 2000! 2001 was the bust!

[@mgabrysSF]

Actually April 2000 was the bust. The denial stopped in 2001. I was there watching the stock-options in Silicon Valley drop like a rock in April, and then analysts denied it for another year.

[@skipsassy1]

I wish I had known you. March 10,2000 is my sisters birthdays. CSCO was at 80 - I sold in 2001 April for 30 after 9 years. I lost a million in possible profits if even though I saw Chambers selling hundreds of millions of options. It went to 80 once after7 splits since 1990 IPO. Now 2016 - retired and doing ok. But thanks. That was my memory.

[@kartgal]

When the woman was trying to get a business card. …..They didn’t have phones to write stuff down

[@Andal8811]

Just another Wall Street Ponzi. This one was almost benign compared to 2008.

[@philsurtees]

The World Wide Web was invented in the 80's and was available to the public in 1991, so it doesn't build much confidence in your video when the first thing you say is that the World Wide Web came in the mid 1990's...

[@chasmast]

Yurek Hunt the web became popular between 93-95 this is a doc about finances and the dotcom bubble. servers outside CERN were not switched on till 91 so despite it's name it wasn't very world wide in the 80s.

[@jameshickey1809]

Chas Mastin uh

[@edluisrivera3317]

Whole different world back then

[@kartgal]

Isn’t it funny how there’s now a brand new set of teenagers/young generation and everyone’s bashing them now

[@pooclak]

it was like selling whiskey to indians 1:07:08

[@thomasscanlan8624]

that was really shocking! I had to re-watch that to make sure I heard it right.

[@Shreendg]

Exactly the opposite of selling snow to the Eskimos.

[@KarlHamilton]

1:02:05 I fucking knew he reminded me of The Joker!!!

[@TrippingHawk]

Is this the Sandlot guy?

[@soloist9495]

4.10 something coming in early September 2001 9/11 anyone

[@mentugo]

Ahaha, Coffee to keep up - if it was just that :D

[@jsoncoding1025]

chas u got old..... chas is such a 20 yr old 90's era name

[@hobowithagun24]

We are in a EV bubble. Everyone is piling in everyday.

[@VoltageLP]

Silicon Alley haha

[@raheelakhtar7]

I see the future. This is the fate of social media influencers.

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

This was good...Startup.com was a much better documentary.

[@awdordie]

We have our monument. Thank you Satoshi Nakamoto. #NOUR

[@ChileSoccer]

WHOA!

[@TalesFromTheBooth]

#Cinnamon

[@Sindoku]

Can anyone say NFTs? Lol

[@littleferrhis]

It’s 2018 and now we have massive .com corporations and even currency run through the internet.

[@redelesdie]

you need to make a new one with the crypto peoples

[@70galaxie]

title tells nothing

[@bobbrawley4466]

thanks, ArronsDavis for the warning . I'll skip this video