From Batch Jobs to Intelligent Chat Across the Networked Age: From Instant Messages to Intelligent Assistants

The development of modern messaging begins well before social platforms. In the 1950s, computers were room-sized, institutional, and difficult to operate. Work was usually handled through queued jobs. People prepared paper tapes, submitted jobs and commands, and waited for a printer to return finished calculations. This process was formal, and it l

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