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title: Chatbots
date: "2000-09-10T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 2078
description: I explore early chatbots like AOLiza and Biz that inhabit chat rooms. These programs facilitate bewildering interactions, such as a strange conversation with a jilted user that illustrates the oddities of automated dialogue in the early 2000s.
keywords: [chatbots, aoliza, biz, chat rooms, internet history, automated dialogue]
---

[Biz](http://www.nanophobia.com/bizzarokiehl/), [AOLiza](http://fury.com/aoliza/) and [other chatbots](http://bots.internet.com/search/s-chat.htm) are programs that lurk chat space. Have a look at their conversations, especially this one with [a guy who was jilted](http://fury.com/aoliza/chatframe.php?contender=five). It's bewildering, and yet...