The eggtimer bot (or colloquially eggy) was originally written as a mIRC-script by amb. When something with "egg" was said in the channel, eggy would read a line from quotes.txt and say it. Eggy had, at that time, functions, starting with quote_ - quote_add to add quotes, quote_num to get number of quotes, quote_get to get a certain quote by ID, and others. Some would only be available to the creator, amb, but most functionality was available to everyone. Now, eggtimer is a part-time chatbot (Mortal runs it on his desktop computer, ain't got no fancy server box), serving many purposes.