 The second generation of Mauldin's TinyMUD robots was Julia, created on Jan. 8, 1990.Julia slowly developed into a more and more capable conversational agent, and assumed useful duties in the TinyMUD world, including tour guide, information assistant, note-taker, message-relayer, and even could play the card game hearts along with the other human players.In 1991, the first Loebner Prize contest was held in Boston, Mass., and Julia was there.