The following is an archived message dated (4/16/1988)

Hello test subjects, friends, test subjects. Welcome to ASIEI!

Asiei stands for the Aperture Science Item Exchange Initiative. What is that you may wonder? Here at Aperture science, our ongoing tests to see how advanced robotic AI can be lead us to the discover of swapping items among friends and random strangers.

However, our research hit a stand still when we discovered that in order to put AI together for robots, we first needed data from humans. So ASIEI was born!

From your local data entry device, we'd like you to head to http://www.asiei.com/index.php and begin experimenting. Let us know how you do, we'll be watching.

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Additional information was added on the night of 10/26/2011 by user D.Rattmann

"ASIEI was never finished due to a lack of funding, however, I've done some work keep things together as I pass the time. If there is anyone alive who DOES use it, PLEASE report and bugs you may find. I spent all my time on the functionality and was able to make a working beta. However, I don't know how well it will work in a full on testing environment.

In addition, I'll do whatever I can with the design to make it more user friendly. If I do ever get out of here, I'll need a new job right? Hopefully this will be something I can show to investors and get my name back out there. Doug signing off."

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