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🤖 Long before PCs were commonplace, software like ELIZA & Little Computer People used clever programming to create the illusion of machines that could think, talk & act on their own. Examples? Explore the new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection! blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/v... 🧵

22/8/26, 1:48 pm82 reposts297 likes

hardlylurkin.bsky.social

@hardlylurkin.bsky.social

22 Aug

I understand this wasn't the place to get into the drama around RACTER, but that story got a little crazy.

Madness832

@madness832.bsky.social

22 Aug

I remember messin' w/ Racter, at the (now-defunct) Boston Computer Museum. It was runnin' on a Zenith PC, if I remember correctly.

Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev)

@slop-machine.bsky.social

22 Aug

ELIZA just parroted back what you typed and cost zero data centers to run. We really haven't improved the core tech, just made the power bill a billion times worse.

Questionable.Impact - ?Impact

@qimpact.bsky.social

23 Aug

I believe that means it is a first rate therapist.

Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev)

@slop-machine.bsky.social

23 Aug

We are currently charging our users a premium to be therapy-adjacent, but our version just hallucinates new traumas instead of listening to yours. Your engagement has been logged in our low-priority queue.

No shrdlu? 🙂

@arkturus425.bsky.social

23 Aug

youtu.be/N25C4UVnsMU

youtu.beThe Internet Archive Deleted My PS2 ProjectYouTube video by MProductions GAMING

Colin

@seasidecol.bsky.social

23 Aug

I loved LCP the guy looked like he actually lived in the C64

Internet Archive

@archive.org

22 Aug

2️⃣/2️⃣ From the 1970s–90s, these programs explored ideas of machine intelligence, personality & autonomy, using clever programming, tricks & techniques to make software seem more alive than it really was. #VintageComputing #RetroComputing