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Many people think that bots emerged only recently, in the wake of the incredibly rapid uptake of smartphones and social media. In fact, although they emerged into mainstream consciousness relatively recently, bots are nearly as old as computers themselves, with their roots going back to the 1960s. However, it is difficult to trace the history of the bot, because there is no standard, universally accepted definition for what exactly a bot is. Indeed, bot designers themselves often don’t agree on this question. We’ll begin this history by discussing some of the first autonomous programs, called daemons, and with the birth of the world’s most famous chatbot in the late 1960s.