Way back in march of 2004, I made one of the worst mistakes in my life - I created a character in BatMUD. I never thought of myself to be much of a gamer, I've always been more interested in more technical things, programming and a little bit of digital electronics and hardware, so mostly my gaming experience consisted of some c64 games, Nethack and some CRPGs like Fallout. I guess the RPG statmania was one reason that got me hooked in the first place, plus the multiplayer interaction and social aspects.
Started off playing with plain telnet for the first month or so, then installed TinyFugue, because it seemed to be the most popular of the clients available for UNIXish platforms. First I didn't use any triggers at all, TF was just there to work as better terminal and separating the input from output .. and the game was confusing enough to start with, triggers would have just complicated things. At least I felt so back then.
At some point, however, my playing style advanced and need for automating certain things became apparent. I researched some of the available scripts, but most of them were either badly designed, full of very apparent mistakes and bugs, or simply not maintained anymore. Some people (highbies mainly) seemed to have some good stuff, but as usual, they only shared inside small circles of their own.
Fancying myself as a programmer of some sort, off I went, developing my own piece of turf, starting out very simple, expanding and improving when needed. That continued for about a year or a bit over, then the situation got out of hand - I started "releasing" GgrTF periodically on my BatMUD related web-page.
The first ever released version of GgrTF was v0.3.0, which was extremely simple and hacky. It supported just channeller/mage stuff and had a broken prots management system. The 0.3.x-series continued up to 0.3.13 or so, after which some bigger changes were made and 0.4.0 was released.
At some point of 0.4.x-series development, more people started noticing GgrTF. I believe some even started using it, or at least used parts of it in their own code. v0.4.x was somewhat short-lived, soon major restructuring was done in the prot management system and it was time for 0.5.0. As the development progressed, it soon again became apparent that bigger changes were needed ... v0.5.5 was the last stable release in that series.
Development of the new features took somewhat longer time than originally expected, there were literally dozens of internal version landmarks (v0.5.6.x, v0.5.9.x, v0.5.10.x, v0.5.11.x and finally even v0.6.0-preX series), which preceeded the final v0.6.0-release in early august 2006. This new release marked a major improvement in code quality and number of features, and also this user's manual was included for the first time. It was also the first time when other people joined up and did some work on few features.