Infobots and Purl - The Perl Journal, Summer 1998
http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0002.html
"Enter the infobot: an autonomous program that converses with users. Infobots are an ongoing experiment in how we can interact as communities with a common institutional memory."
O'Reilly Radar The Perl Infobot
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/the_perl_infobot.html
"Tim mentioned the Perl infobot in passing, subject of a great Perl Journal article many years ago."