First Interspecies Internet Chat

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Blog & Internet on April 27, 2009 at 12:21 pm


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.

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.

Link

Also check out Koko’s website, which includes a transcript of the AOL chat. (Thank, Gauldar!)


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4 comments to "First Interspecies Internet Chat"

  1. Gauldar
    April 27th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    The transcript link didn't work, but I found this one.

    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.

  2. Johnny Cat
    April 27th, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Thanks Gauldar, that was cool.

  3. Foreigner1
    April 27th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Well... The apes in George of the jungle" have more intelligent conversation...

    That, or Koko has such high inteligence that most AOL-chatters never fathomed the deepness of these answers...!

    Pink!

    Great- Gauldar Thnx!

  4. LisaL
    April 27th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    Love Koko! I just hope they can get her her gorilla baby like she wants. Poor thing :(


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