Where did the fashion for telegram bots come from?

Question

Bots

For the past couple of weeks, the toaster has been inundated with questions about telegram bots.
On freelance, I also began to notice a lot of orders for the development of telegram bots.
Did I miss something? Somewhere they posted an article, and everyone except me read it?

Answer 1

https://geektimes.ru/post/272796/

Answer 2

Everything is simple. In fact, a huge number of bots existed back in ICQ, when I was still at school, a new trend just appeared, and since people are mostly herds, they cannot help but start using what is being said around and by everyone, otherwise, that it was invented ten years ago - they don’t even think, the main thing is to be fashionable and in trend. To be like everyone else, in short. Seriously. And since the majority do not have a formed personality, they are very dependent on the opinions of others - friends, acquaintances, and simply famous personalities. And you can conduct a visual check of herding yourself. If you have a relatively large city, then you may have come across the fact that if there is a crowd at a traffic light, then it’s worth rushing to red to one person - the whole crowd is breaking under him. All! In my presence, even cars flying to the intersection often signal them, like where are you going? In such situations, half starts to run further, and the other half breaks back onto the pavement. In bulk! And you stand alone, look at all this and understand that everything is, in general, bad ... At my grandmother in the village, chickens scattered like that when you scared them away ... But we fly into space ...
PS Well, yes, if in a more general sense, then Durov still offers money for their development. But the rules above work great in those areas in which money is not paid.

Answer 3

Where did you go? from Durov's long purse