I had a similar experience. A friend gave me a free shell account so I built a little battle.net chat bot in Perl. Later I branched out into AIM bots, one had j

I had a similar experience. A friend gave me a free shell account so I built a little battle.net chat bot in Perl. Later I branched out into AIM bots, one had jokes/fortune but also a student directory (commandeered from a school server with lax security). The other would sign on like 60 different accounts and on my command mass message someone, it'd crash some versions of AOL and just be a real annoyance for AIM users. The Perl library was `Net::AIM::TOC` and later `Net::OSCAR`