There was also a translation server called Babylon that used a similar raw text protocol (like WHOIS, and DICT here) in 1998. I remember adding it to my IRC scr

There was also a translation server called Babylon that used a similar raw text protocol (like WHOIS, and DICT here) in 1998. I remember adding it to my IRC script, but it must have stopped working at some point that I had replaced it with "babelfish.altavista.com" :)