Limited to an anachronistic 1200 bits per second, it took several moments for the green-phosphor ASCII art to scroll ... would be easy to mistake a bulletin board system for some kind of first ...

more widely known as ASCII. The explosion of bulletin board systems in the 1980s and 1990s further popularized the format. Five of the best-known AI assistants—OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 ...