Retro AI: How 2011's AI Might Have Shaped the Modern Web

Retro AI: How 2011's AI Might Have Shaped the Modern Web In 2011, AI wasn’t the powerhouse it is today. No GPT, no diffusion models, no transformers dominating every headline. Instead, we had simpler, scrappy algorithms — Naive Bayes, SVMs, basic neural nets — running on modest hardware. But what if those early models had shaped the web before deep learning took over? In this tutorial, we’ll travel back in time. We’ll build a simple content classifier using 2011-era techniques — think early spam