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BonziBuddy (or "Bonzi Buddy") was a piece of internet spyware masquerading as a virtual assistant. It was created by Bonzi Software, a company that was once one of the most visited sites on the web ...

BonziBuddy's purpose was to guide us through using the computer — particularly the internet — which makes sense when you consider that home computing was still incredibly new back then. As a kid in ...

Remember this cute little purple ape? If you’re a Linux user, you might not, so let me enlighten you a bit. This little guy is the "Bonzi Buddy" ape. He was one of the earliest ...

Before Siri and Alexa, there was Bonzi. In the early 2000s, a purple, talking gorilla named BonziBuddy was billed as a free virtual assistant, ready for all your internet needs. It could talk, search ...

A common topic of contention in our own Battlefront forum—where the elite meet to beat each other's favorite OS into defeat—is that given two computer platforms, A and B, one measure of superiority ...