2002
Dan and I built ZorkBot in January of 2002. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first instance of someone hooking AIM up to an external application. Certainly the first time with an Infocom game, despite the recent (2004) publicity in Wired magazine that mentions us not. The bot itself isn't running anymore, but here is the information page.
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