'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code

An older white man with long salt-and-pepper hair and glasses sits at a desk with a keyboard and computer monitor.

Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well.

Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software archaeologists" discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life.