Please Insert Disk 2: From Floppy Disks to AI Data Centers

A computer that crashed if you sneezed near it turned into a building drawn over most of Manhattan. This is the strange, true story of how floppy disks, screaming dial-up modems, Napster, MySpace and the iPhone led to ChatGPT and AI data centers. On the way: a modem that screamed, a llama, a beer you could drink off your phone, and Bill Gates in a trench coat holding a shotgun. All real. And the AI boom? It started on two video game cards, in one guy's bedroom, at his parents' house. Chapters 0:00 A computer that crashed if you sneezed 0:41 Please Insert Disk 2: the Amiga years 3:07 Prince of Persia, Tetris and Doom 6:11 The dial-up handshake (56k, AOL, Mozilla) 9:04 Uh-oh: ICQ, Winamp, Clippy and SmarterChild 12:26 GeoCities, Napster, LimeWire and MySpace Tom 15:58 Broadband, YouTube, the iPhone and the App Store 19:38 How a gaming graphics card became AI (NVIDIA, AlexNet, ChatGPT) 22:35 Towns made of computers: AI data centers 24:08 Floppy disks never left What was your first computer or first game? Your first screen name? Who made your Top 8? Tell us in the comments. This is the first episode of Little Known: the parts of the story nobody told you. If you want disk two, please subscribe. #retrocomputing #internethistory #amiga #ai #chatgpt #nvidia #techhistory #computerhistory #nostalgia #90s #2000s #floppydisk #dialup #myspace #documentary