Somebody wrote a program to have computer act as psychiatrist.

Back in about 1982, my family bought a computer (it was top of the line, I think it had 64K RAM!). We had a BASIC program that played the psychiatrist, and I tell you, it freaked me out (I was only about 7 at the time). I could type in "I like to play kickball" and it would respond with "What is it about kickball that you like so much?" I would answer, of course, that I like kicking the ball. He'd come back and say "Sounds pretty violent."

It was almost as scary as the Shining was (which I also saw that year, stupid me).