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Huh? People have been working on chat bots since forever. I mean, especially on IRC, with Eggdrop. My favourite was always: https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion

by veb 10y ago

Huh? People have been working on chat bots since forever. I mean, especially on IRC, with Eggdrop. My favourite was always: https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion Example: https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion/wiki/Examples https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion/wiki/Examples

giancarlostoro 10y ago
The thing is, the Mobile Internet is rising, most people have phones, and old trends and concepts that are old to the Internet seem new and significant to the mobile platform. For example Flappy Bird was an ancient game on the web that existed and then it blew up, now you have many, many clones. Edit: Also consider how much information is on your phone, and how easy it is to access it than with a browser on your laptop. With the click of a button you give an app access to your contacts and other information. A chat bot you install wont really have this access, even if you gave it access, you wont normally keep your contacts on your system, not unless you use a Windows phone and it syncs to your Windows account (assuming this is a "thing" they do).
- iamdave 10y ago
  >For example Flappy Bird was an ancient game on the web that existed and then it blew up, now you have many, many clones. I'll give you a better example than that in Angry Birds. Crush the Castle was a staple of mine for at least a year or two LOOONG before Angry Birds showed up; ultimately the exact same format of a game except your projectile was a trebuchet and not a slingshot. Angry Birds showed up on the smartphone and ate Crush The Castle's forever remaining lunches. Hell, if you want to go back farther than that I think it was a game called 'Armor', fire at thing, destroy thing, upgrade and fire again for points. But yeah, that first sentence nails it completely.
  - linkregister 10y ago
    My favorite incarnation of the Armor genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) AKA Gorilla.bas
j45 10y ago
Totally. IRC has has had eggdrop and other bots for over 20 years. Can't wait for someone to "innovate" mIRC's scriptable client into their product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop Slack has effectively re-created irc and bots in a modern client. It's nice mobile messaging platforms are joining the past and present with the future, let's just not call it innovation.
treve 10y ago
ELIZA was around in 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
- j45 10y ago
  Cool read, thanks for sharing!
  - dredmorbius 10y ago
    M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead

by veb 10y ago

giancarlostoro 10y ago

The thing is, the Mobile Internet is rising, most people have phones, and old trends and concepts that are old to the Internet seem new and significant to the mobile platform. For example Flappy Bird was an ancient game on the web that existed and then it blew up, now you have many, many clones. Edit: Also consider how much information is on your phone, and how easy it is to access it than with a browser on your laptop. With the click of a button you give an app access to your contacts and other information. A chat bot you install wont really have this access, even if you gave it access, you wont normally keep your contacts on your system, not unless you use a Windows phone and it syncs to your Windows account (assuming this is a "thing" they do).

iamdave 10y ago
>For example Flappy Bird was an ancient game on the web that existed and then it blew up, now you have many, many clones. I'll give you a better example than that in Angry Birds. Crush the Castle was a staple of mine for at least a year or two LOOONG before Angry Birds showed up; ultimately the exact same format of a game except your projectile was a trebuchet and not a slingshot. Angry Birds showed up on the smartphone and ate Crush The Castle's forever remaining lunches. Hell, if you want to go back farther than that I think it was a game called 'Armor', fire at thing, destroy thing, upgrade and fire again for points. But yeah, that first sentence nails it completely.
- linkregister 10y ago
  My favorite incarnation of the Armor genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) AKA Gorilla.bas

j45 10y ago

Totally. IRC has has had eggdrop and other bots for over 20 years. Can't wait for someone to "innovate" mIRC's scriptable client into their product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop Slack has effectively re-created irc and bots in a modern client. It's nice mobile messaging platforms are joining the past and present with the future, let's just not call it innovation.

treve 10y ago

ELIZA was around in 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

j45 10y ago
Cool read, thanks for sharing!
- dredmorbius 10y ago
  M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead