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		sp332 on Dec 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Buys Shazam to Boost Apple Music Around 2000, MIT had a number you could dial (toll-free) and ask a computer about the weather. It would keep track of where and when you were talking about during the conversation, so after asking "will it rain in Boston today" you could ask "how about Thursday" and then "how about Rochester, NY" and it would read you Thursday's forecast for Rochester. A very cool end-to-end demo of conversational tech.

sn9 on Dec 15, 2017 [–]

IIRC it was called Jupiter? I remember using it in 2006.

Nifty little tool. Felt like the future.

sp332 on Dec 16, 2017 | [–]

Yup, that's the one. It closed down eventually but I had the number memorized so I could show it off to people.

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