any nerd pede that can think back to the cat scanner like joyon pulitzer made for barcode days, i had this anime guy that was early AI from a CD-ROM my mom gave me in like 95' was called "fred" any info is greatly appreciated. He was like Tamagotchi for windows, had to feed him and engage with him but it taught you windows, i want to find it again
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there was a funky paperclip character in word/excel from that era i think, a cat too
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-life-death-microsoft-clippy-paper-clip-loved-hate lol
the cat was joyon it was like a mouse but a long skinny cat i had one to scan barcode, i also had a program that was a simpson looking reject charector that was AI it was set to always ontop and would follow words and text on screen even read it and you to like do tasks to keep him happy so you learned WIN it was completely third party but i kinda think it came with the cat from joyon i forget been years on years
Wasn't AI. Preprogrammed responses.
sure whatever whats his name its not bob it was like fred or ted
What about Microsoft Bob? What about him? Huh?
nope it was based version third party
Yeah I can't remember.
Interestingly enough I can't find any information on older virtual companions