113: My Website Ran a Casino Without Me. Is Yours Next? with Jamin Andrews

Well, AI has made a sort of massive dent in everything in terms of we need server capacity somewhere.

For me, I remember the same transformation during the 90s, and that was kind of real.

Probably the first change in how we kind of did stuff in the office environment for such a long time.

I was like, you're absolutely right.

I need a website.

Where does that go? And stuff like that.

For me, the realization was seeing people.

You remember the old CRT monitors? Of course you do.

Green screens.

Orange.

Orange screens.

They were great.

But for me, it was seeing people take the yellow pages back when it was actually a pretty substantial book and they'd put it under the CRT monitor.

to raise it up to like the economic height.

And my realization at that stage was that people was going to start, this was going to fundamentally change the way that people accessed information in the same way that AI is now fundamentally changing the way people access information and advice.

And that stage was people taking the yellow pages off the shelf and sticking it under the monitor.

Yeah.

And then typing on the screen to get the information I want rather than sort of flipping through the pages.

And I had a yellow pages, you know, turn up my doorstep the other day.

And it was basically just the width of a thin paperback, but lots of spaces for notes in it.

But they still print it?

They do still print it.

I have seen it pop up from time to time.

I'm not sure how much longer it's got because again, what do they do with this book that they used to get? And now we're seeing that revolution happening again.

We saw it firstly with the internet and then with the development of social media through the noughties and teens and still very important today.