Shoutout to Rupert Lane!

Most people read about old software. Rupert and a team brought ELIZA back to life -- actually running, actually responding, in its original environment on a simulated IBM 7094!

We could stop speculating about what it did and just... watch it do the thing

ELIZA! Back from the dead!

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Inventing ELIZA's acknowledgments start with Myles Crowley, Patsy Baudoin, Mikki Macdonald, and Allison Schmitt -- archivists at MIT Distinctive Collections

They found the source code for ELIZA!

without them, history doesn't just get fuzzy

It disappears

Thank you to everyone who keeps the boxes!

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