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Eliza, a line-by-line remake of the original AI chatbot from 1966

Eliza, a line-by-line remake of the original AI chatbot from 1966

by marquisdegeek·Feb 15, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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The Take

Faithful, line-by-line reconstruction of Weizenbaum's ELIZA that runs in your browser with a terminal-style interface and direct links to the original source code. It’s satisfying to step through the original pattern-matching scripts and watch how simple rules create the illusion of conversation, but it’s firmly a historical demo rather than a modern chatbot toolkit.

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Education
Target Audience

Developers, students, AI/ML hobbyists, computing historians

Post Description

Source at https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/Eliza-Origins along links to with a talk I gave explaining a bit about it.

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