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by GrantS 1230 days ago
Possibly a reference to the 1956 Isaac Asimov short story "Someday": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story)

"The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire..."

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If you name something Bard, it's at least partly a reference to Shakespeare. Also known as The Bard.

What are Shakespeare's works best known for? Language.