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The Origins of Internet Bots by Michael Sussman
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The Origins of Internet Bots |
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Science & Technology,Computers,Art and Culture
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San Francisco---An Internet bot is a software application that performs automated tasks by running scripts over the Internet. Bots perform simple, structurally repetitive tasks much more quickly, efficiently, and accurately than is humanly possible. The oldest Internet bots in the world can be traced as far back as 1988, when on August 8, 1988, great inventor Andre Gray uploaded the very first complete song on the Internet titled “Internet killed The Video star”, a song he composed in the MIDI format on a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. Andre Gray also invented the world’s very first Internet bot he named “inkling” —a crawler bot. Gray used a free software called FIDONET to disseminate the song’s MIDI file coupled with inkling across disparate BBS: Bulleting Board Systems, Usenet groups and Internet Relay Chat, or IRC for short—signaling the official birth of the online digital music ( and digital media) revolution.inkling's primary function was to keep track of how many times the song was accessed and downloaded and then report those statistics back to Gray. inkling was also major milestone in artificial intelligence in the sense that it was the first documented and verified instance of where artificial intelligence was used in a internet/web bot (and on the internet period), and with great and promising effect. Today's sophisticated internet bots (and the many variations of them) all reference and are direct descendants of inkling. Seeing and experiencing the success of inkling, software developers began to create and releasing their own Internet bots within weeks of inkling’s debut. Bill Wisner released Bartender; Greg Lindhal released a game manager bot for the game ‘Hunt The Wumpus’, and Jurki Alakuijala’s Puppe. Today, Internet bots are extremely crucial to the creation and functionality of the web and search engines. In fact, published scientific papers and studies have shown that bots make up an amazing 65% of all Internet activity. By: Michael Sussman
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