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I did similar perhaps a touch later with some of the messenger protocols, MSN I think primarily. So long ago it's difficult to remember. Not sure it'll ever be
by cs02rm0 3y ago
I did similar perhaps a touch later with some of the messenger protocols, MSN I think primarily. So long ago it's difficult to remember.
Not sure it'll ever be the same for my kids. Which is a shame, whatever the gains and there are some, I think we've lost something.
- sshine 3y agoI did the same, writing IRC clients, bots and extension scripts from the age of 12. Since you mentioned MSN, one thing I did in high school was connect an Eggdrop IRC bot via Bitlbee to MSN Messenger and hook it up with the MegaHAL module for text synthesis based on hidden Markov models. So basically, a chatbot on MSN. I trained it for a night to make it sound reasonable and respond well to various conversation, and I made it auto-accept connection requests and left it in training mode. Two weeks later, it was ruined. My kid sister's friends had all connected, and it now sounded like a 10 year old hyperactive psychopath. Strangely enough, it was a lot more authentic to them, since it spoke like them.