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AI Assistants in 2001 vs. AI Assistants in 2026

12/8/26, 3:42 pm76 reposts339 likes

@jose-felix.bsky.social

Have you seen Notion AI assistant logo or "mascot", it's probably the closes to what it used to be back then and it's pretty cool.

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BonziBUDDY website in 2000 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/bonz...

webdesignmuseum.orgBonziBUDDY in 2000Relive the early 2000s with the BonziBUDDY in 2000. Visit the Web Design Museum’s gallery and experience the evolution of the internet.

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Ask Jeeves (a forerunner of today’s AI assistants) in 2000. www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/ask-...

webdesignmuseum.orgAsk Jeeves in 2000Relive the early 2000s with the Ask Jeeves in 2000. Visit the Web Design Museum’s gallery and experience the evolution of the internet.

@robotictom.com

who was the wizard for? it looks familiar but I can't recall

quirky-iri.bsky.social

@quirky-iri.bsky.social

i think it was windows xp search. i know there was a dog, but i think you could replace it with a wizard

@mikorivs.bsky.social

AI assistants in 2001: No LLMs involved, quirky characters that the devs had fun making AI assistants now: Their entire entity are nothing but evil logos that run on harvested data and are insatiably hungry for infinite amounts of it and will do anything to rot your brain until it has nothing left.

@mikorivs.bsky.social

Did I say entity? I meant identity. Whoops.

@drewgallagher.bsky.social

Microsoft paperclip is the GOAT

Idiot creature, alternatively Repugnant muppet

@writerfrog99.bsky.social

2001 was obviously better

Cara DeCarlo-Wirscham

@caradecarlo.bsky.social

Oh I remember that little cat!! I loved it!

Doan, Child of Lavos

@doan2300.bsky.social

Nobody I knew, liked or trusted the paperclip either

offline28.bsky.social

@offline28.bsky.social

I feel like people romanticized it now a days because AI is so much worse now

Doan, Child of Lavos

@doan2300.bsky.social

it wasn't actively malicious like AI, just annoying. except the one that gained too much power and turned into Giygas.

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