Talk to my Cat

Site:
http://queer.slip.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/talktocat

Category:
Web Gadgets

Review (in 1996):

Pittsburgh computer engineer Michael Witbrock hopes you'll talk to his cat long-distance. He has a voice synthesizer hooked up to his computer; type in your message, and the computer (apparently) says it aloud. There's no guarantee the cat will be awake, of course, or even in the room. But if he's alert and attentive, you might amuse him.

What's really interesting about this site, besides the fact that it's kind of fun to think up something clever for your long-distance oration, is the list of the last 30 messages to the cat from previous visitors. When we visited, the public had made statements ranging from "Here Kitty kitty" to "Putty wanna beer?" to "I like fat women", all at a rate of 15 messages per hour.

Poor cat.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.