retrac
11 hours ago
"Agent" was already established lingo in computer science and AI when The Matrix was released.
amiga386
9 hours ago
Fun fact, you're browsing the web as fetched for you, and rendered in a way you find acceptable, by your user agent
embedding-shape
9 hours ago
Better page specifically for user-agent in a browser context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent (although has a lot less content)
Besides Firefox, I don't think many of the browsers are user-agents anymore, but more like corporate-agents, as they don't seem to act in the interest of the software user anymore.
bigfatkitten
10 hours ago
They were indeed. “Autonomous agents” were extremely trendy in CS 30 years ago.