I fondly remember writing an anime news bot, that scraped a anime news site and spammed it into one of my channels.
I didn't know what HTTP, HTML, loops, or even arrays where. I copy-pasted everything from countless sources I found.
Good times.
I then ran one with just a mode that would op anybody upon joining and then when I'd run into folks who were all into bots, I was like "yeah I have one you can borrow for your channel," and then they'd invite it and op the thing, and then it would start opping everybody who joined and the prior owner of the channel would get all ornery about it.
lol irc was like the crackhouse of the internet to me.