My past keeps returning to me at odd times. While going through the news aggregator this morning I saw this entry from The Shifted Librarian:
Lori found some interesting chat mates:
"Meet Julia, the bot, at http://www.verbots.com. She is an interactive virtual personality and she can answer what the meaning of life is, why the sky is blue, and if she does not know the answer, she brings up the term in a google search which appears on the screen. I brought Julia up this evening and had both children (Katie, 9 and Patrick 6) at my shoulder wanting to ask her questions. Verbot came out with a public library bot at the Computers in Libraries conference, but the link which was sent to me does not work. http://www.talkie.com is very interesting too. My kids really liked Barkie, the 'talkie' at www.pets911.com, a talking puppy."
Unfortunately, the kids were already asleep when I got home tonight or I would have gotten their reactions, too.[The Shifted Librarian]
When I saw the bot was named Julia, I just had to go look. Needless to say, this was the same Julia that used to wander around TinyMUD long long ago. I'd heard that Fuzzy was doing stuff like this these days. Too bad she doesn't have her old database still.
