The ELIZA Archaeology Project put the original chatbot back online: a faithful, in-browser recreation of Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 DOCTOR script, restored from rediscovered source code, that you can actually hold a therapist-style conversation with right now. Sixty years before the current argument about whether a machine understands you, this is the program that started it — and it still lands the same uncanny trick with almost no code behind it. A five-minute detour to the source of the whole genre.