Siri continues to trail behind assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, but I would switch back to Apple’s AI in a heartbeat if it had the same terribly synthesized voice as it does in this parody revealing what Siri would have been like on ‘80s desktop PCs.
https://gizmodo.com/a-90s-version-of-snapchat-would-have-been-a-whole-lot-l-1793772453
Having previously explored how unusable modern apps like Snapchat would have worked on an ‘80s-era computer, Squirrel Monkey’s completely fake Wonders of the World Wide Web takes a look at how impossibly slow a voice-activated assistant would have been with 386 processors, 9600-baud dial-up modems, and awful VGA graphics. As hard as it is to believe, the modern Siri experience is somehow an actual improvement.
[YouTube via Tastefully Offensive]
