AOL, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 14
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How does OpenAI compete?
- ▶ 19:04 Benedict Evans AOL was a huge thing.
The AI presentation
- ▶ 7:58 Benedict Evans Um, and then there was AOL, and Pointcast, and Flash, and plugins, and portals, and Netscape, and everything, no one kind of knew what questions to ask, and how any of this was going to work, and, and, and, and Google was five years away,…
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 32:03 Benedict Evans AOL will disappear. 2 times in the scene
Threads
- ▶ 21:43 Benedict Evans So you'd have, like, Steve Case telling stories about shipping DVDs and CDs for AOL in the nineties.
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
- ▶ 25:08 Benedict Evans You didn't have all of the kind of the basic building blocks on top of which Yahoo and eBay and AOL and everything else got built and like, yes, I'm jumbling up the timeline a bit here, but it's like you don't have the stuff you need to…
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 37:06 Benedict Evans The, um, slide I used in the presentation I published at the end of last year was, is again from a research report from 1995, which is kind of a diagram of what the matrix is going to look like, and it's got like, because we had no idea,…
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 4:43 Benedict Evans And so on was a fundamentally different way of making websites to Yahoo or AOL.
- ▶ 11:49 Benedict Evans Well, which is why, well, that is, this is why AOL and CompuServe were a thing, but also, like, you didn't know what the stack was going to look like, so, um, you didn't know what the apps were going to be.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 17:26 Benedict Evans Um, and meanwhile, of course, you have CompuServe and AOL as these sort of parallel, and Microsoft Network, which are these parallel private networks that happen to have a little, a little port that you could go out onto the internet from…
Creativity and Optimism
- ▶ 11:08 Benedict Evans You know, or AOL had been run by different people, then maybe we might all be using Yahoo now.
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 54:34 Benedict Evans Um, or they look more like AOL than they look like Google, but they don't, but they don't look like your Facebook or they don't look like Google.
The Business of publishing
- ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans Which is, frankly, Condé Nast, which is sort of other, and News Corporation, and Yahoo, and AOL, and everything else, which is all in that sort of the remaining, whatever the number is, a third or so of online advertising, which is a bit…
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 10:35 Benedict Evans And if Yahoo or AOL had been in a different place, maybe the portal model would have worked.