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The AI Interface Museum

A visual history of how humans learned to interact with AI.

The museum follows one chronological timeline from 2011 onward. Entries are selected for adoption and cultural impact first, with technical and interaction novelty as supporting evidence. Distinct product generations become separate artifacts when they introduce a genuinely different interface.

The collection currently spans chat, voice, vision, canvas, code, search, recommendation, ambient computing, audio, video, computer use, agents, autonomous vehicles, and embodied systems.

Development

The site is a single-route TanStack Start application.

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Run the same checks as CI before committing:

pnpm check
pnpm build

The Husky pre-commit hook runs formatting and lint checks. If it fails, run pnpm format, review the resulting changes, and commit again.

Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the artifact standard, research and image requirements, development workflow, and pull request checklist.

Artifact captures must be submitted as WebP pairs: a full-size product-year.webp image for the detail view and a product-year-thumb.webp image no wider than 640 px for the timeline. Do not add PNG or JPEG captures. The contribution guide includes the conversion commands and verification steps.

Before participating, read the Code of Conduct. Report vulnerabilities through the private process in SECURITY.md.

License

The source code is available under the MIT License. Product names, marks, and archival imagery remain the property of their respective owners and are included for historical and editorial reference.

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