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Eggdrop is a bot for IRC. IRC is a low-fidelity text-based real-time chat system. There are many IRC networks (there were many more 10-20 years ago) and on these networks there can be channels (chat rooms). Those channels are often topical, e.g. #gentoo, #massachussets or #electronics.

Eggdrop is configurable with scripts and for what that allows I want to simply quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop: Scripts are available to add and extend support for: online games, stats, user and channel management, information storage and lookup, greeting channel members, tracking last seen times, botnet management, anti-spam, file serving and distribution (usually via the DCC protocol), IRC services (similar to ChanServ and NickServ), and much more.