10 years ago: AOL - Eliza prank
From Boing Boing 10 years ago: Kevin Fox hooked up the Eliza program (an early, crude, conversational bot) to AOL instant messenger. He posts the conversations between the Eliza program and people who think that they are chatting with a person.
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