Far back in the history of online socializing, «floodbots» would join a channel and fill it «with garbage
text, endlessly repeated insults, or random billowing storm clouds of data,» killing the
normal conversation.82 In 1996, with spam as a targeted marketing model taking off and NANAE forming, a company called GlobalMedia Design released RoverBot, one of the early address - harvesting bots, which would take keywords, find related pages, and search those pages for email addresses so that you could generate address lists related to «real estate» or «manga.»