Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source | Microsoft Open Source Blog
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned conversations within Internet Relay Chat (IRC) into comic panels featuring illustrated characters, speech bubbles, and expressions, and helped introduce the world to a little font called Comic Sans.
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Microsoft Chat (Comic Chat)
http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm
"Microsoft Chat, formerly known as Comic Chat, was initially released on Internet Explorer v3.0 in 1996, and was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander together with the Virtual Worlds Group."