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Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client from 30 years ago that helped popularize Comic Sans, is going open source

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Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client from 30 years ago that helped popularize Comic Sans, is going open source
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Microsoft's once popular IRC client "Comic Chat" is being open sourced to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Those who frequented the world wide web in the 90's will likely remember Comic Chat for being a unique experiment into how IRC chatting could be, featuring graphical avatars that presented chats and chatrooms in comic strip form. Originally developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander and released on August 13, 1996, Comic Chat began life as a research project before morphing into Micro

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