Software archeologists have successfully pulled 'Eliza,' the world's first chatbot from the 1960s, back from digital oblivion.

Joseph Weizenbaum published a journal article detailing ELIZA, "a program … which makes certain types of natural language conversation between man and computer possible." He had created the first chatbot and named it after Eliza Doolittle,

Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well. Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software archaeologists" discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life.

As the world grapples with a flood of Large Language Models, some computer programmers have gone old school, reaching back to where it all began by reanimating the first chatbot using its original code.