History
The historically oldest IRC bots were Bill Wisner's Bartender and Greg Lindahl's GM (Game Manager for the Hunt the Wumpus game). Over time, bots evolved to provide special services, such as managing channels on behalf of groups of users, maintaining access lists, and providing access to databases.
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“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
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