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yParticle t1_je840h4 wrote

The cool thing about this in the retrocomputing space is how phenomenally mindblowing it would have been to see that coming across your 1200 baud modem in the 1980s. Hell, just chatting with a real person that way was pretty incredible.

Imagine a chatGPT BBS that would be the equivalent of playing an old INFOCOM text adventure but everything taking place in the real world! With the BBS sharing knowledge, solving problems, and downloading files from around the world before the Internet was a thing.

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Westfakia t1_je9prvy wrote

ELIZA was amazing already if you were alive in 1984.

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yourbasicgeek OP t1_jebu77k wrote

The first time I encountered Eliza, circa 1984, I played with it for two hours.

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