ICQ bot 'Grumpy' from 1997

In view of the recent popularity I thought I should add this for posteriority. ICQ was a chat service in the late 1990s. Grumpy was implemented in 1997 on the basis of the plain bot 'splotch.c' by Duane Fields. Modifications include: an activation based (leaky-integrator) topicality mechanism to obtain some consistence in the dialog per ICQ user, over sessions. Invocation of terminal-based games (not functioning now). Integration with the ICQ api and mechanism with a UIN per user. Several mechanisms to address extraneous sources such as wordnet, altavista, later google, wikipedia etc. One ICQ use came back 800 times to talk to Grumpy. It is clear that the content and log files are partly incomprehensible and in any case highly likely to contain non-politically correct fragments coming from the user community 1997-2000. In short: The owner of the repository take no responsibility for inappropriate content. Using decency criteria the user logs were cleaned but norms are in a continuous flux. Also, more innocuously, there will be a lot of technical, nerdy jargon and abbreviations that will be utterly incomprehensible to current computer users.