Infobot

Infobot
Original author(s)	Kevin Lenzo
Initial release	1995
Stable release	1.5.3 / August 1, 2008; 17 years ago
Written in	Perl
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	IRC bot
License	Artistic License
Website	infobot.sourceforge.net

Infobot is a Perl IRC bot, first written in 1995 by Kevin Lenzo. The bot's main goal was to remember URLs and associate them with a name, so if someone needed a specific web address they could ask the bot. For this reason, the first Infobot, in the #macintosh channel in the EFnet IRC network, had the nickname 'url'.

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The main project is now inactive, many forks from the original program were made, some of which are still active. Many of these forks carry extra features.