Eliza was a staple in every basic book and magazine ever published in the 80s and there were always copies in the computer labs, I’m sure I entered in this by h

Eliza was a staple in every basic book and magazine ever published in the 80s and there were always copies in the computer labs, I’m sure I entered in this by hand at some point - https://everything2.com/title/ELIZA+source+code+in+BASIC https://everything2.com/title/ELIZA+source+code+in+BASIC I knew a guy who wrote an irc bot called “Petunia“ that wasn’t even as sophisticated as Eliza - it would just make random statements and every time someone sent it a message it would be added to the list of statements. It would post everything sent and received on a web site - including a mountain of nsfw images received - would take some people 15-20 minutes to decide that Petunia was fake.