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InfocomBot

What a great idea for an IM bot: a portal into the old Infocom text adventures like Zork and THHGTTG. These games were formative for me when I was growing up and playing them on an Atari 800, and it's great to be reminded of them again. AOL is tossing the bots off the network because they're exceeding message limits (nice to see some things haven't changed since we created the Spyonit.com IM bots), but hopefully that will get resolved.

I had never really thought about an IM client being a "universal dumb terminal with a third-party distributed directory service" before. I mean, we've done some cool stuff with two-way IM bots before, but the "save" and "restore" functions tied into the IM identity are really innovative. Also makes playing these games from an AOL IM-equipped mobile phone a reality ... you can even pick up where you left off from your desktop. Good job, Andy Baio.

Source: Waxy.org: Daily Log: InfocomBot for AOL Instant Messenger

Posted by Eric on March 26, 2004 08:56 AM • • Microfeed

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Thanks! Very flattering, coming from you.

Posted by: Andy Baio | March 26, 2004 06:49 PM

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