WinBot

Name WinBot Also Known As TechBot, LunchBot Location Australia Functions Channel Management Bot Last Seen On no data Last Spoke On no data Random Quote no data

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Personal

Age	8
Gender	Male
Job	IRC Custodian

History

From the channel History pages:

"As an experiment in late '97, I wrote a bot named TechBot coded with simple channel management functions. The bot was opped, and grew into a channel project. Soon the bot was renamed WinBot, and became an icon in #Windows95. It featured amatuer AI that simply responded to certain words and phrases like 'hello', a simple news displayer for article submissions by ops, a partyline similar to an Eggdrop bot, a telnet console for remote administration, AutoVoice, channel rules relaying, a 'lastseen' list, and many channel management and miscellaneous functions. With contributions and support from DarkSkye and DrWatson32/ChrisC along with hosting by flec, the bot became a channel success – several incarnations of this first version of WinBot served the channel for several years.

"With WinBot's code badly aged and my scripting ability more experienced, I completely rewrote the bot in March of 2002. Within days, I wrote the first beta of the WinBot2 project, and cranked it up in the channel. With streamlined and organized code written for the new mIRC version six – opposed to the original WinBot's barely organized, stitched together code – the new bot was far superior. In enhancements over the original WinBot, it had a completely remade user list which communicated with DALnet services over operator rights, and acted as a replacement ChanServ in the event that services were lagged or split from the network. A new command system enabled all of WinBot's functions to be accessed from a variety of methods, in a more modular fashion. A helper bot, named LunchBot, used a skimmed version of WinBot2 to catch spammers in the channel by remaining non-opped and automatically reporting the spammers to WinBot for removal. The bot's beta testing phased was marked complete in Semtember 2002 after lots of constructive criticism from the channel ops that led to the final product of WinBot2." -JoeyQ

Notes

A clone of WinBot has been assimilated by Chesperito.