Eleven years ago today, Koko the gorilla used American Sign Language to communicate with her fans via AOL chat. It was the first known interspecies chat on the internet.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/04/dayintech_0427
Also check out Koko's website, which includes a transcript of the AOL chat. (Thank, Gauldar!)
Roughly 8,000 AOL subscribers joined the chat, which featured Koko, who signed her answers; Patterson, who interpreted them; and an AOL chat facilitator.
As the transcript clearly shows, Koko’s responses were a bit vague, but no more inane than some of the drivel littering Facebook pages these days.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/04/dayintech_0427
Also check out Koko's website, which includes a transcript of the AOL chat. (Thank, Gauldar!)
http://www.koko.org/world/talk_aol.html
Judging by the responces I think I was in a World of Warcraft raid with him, damn good at playing a hunter and typed only when needed.
That, or Koko has such high inteligence that most AOL-chatters never fathomed the deepness of these answers...!
Pink!
Great- Gauldar Thnx!