Mentions personal use of Winamp.

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…That’s right. It got acquired by Apple, and then eventually they (I think) built off the same code base and turned it into iTunes. But everyone used Winamp. That was the AIM of music players. And in fact, AOL I think would acquire Winamp a couple of years later, bring it all into the fold. Legend has it, Mark is listening to a playlist in Winamp one day during his senior year, and he gets to the end of the playlist. He’s like, why did the music stop? I listen to so much music all the time on Winamp, it should just know what I like and automatically pick the next song. It should just be a DJ. Then inspiration hits, he calls up Adam, and he is like, I’ve got our senior project. We are going to build an AI DJ plugin for Winamp, and they call this Synapse. They did it. These two high school kids. They build an AI, AI wasn’t called AI at the time, but a recommender system that looks at the data of what songs you’ve consumed on Winamp, and predicts what song you’re going to like to consume next. It’s basically Spotify today. What year is this?…

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