Microsoft Comic Chat Goes Open Source: The App That Popularized Comic Sans

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

We are thrilled to open source Microsoft Comic Chat, the legendary 1990s application that transformed IRC text into comic panels and introduced the world to Comic Sans. Originally built by Microsoft Research and illustrated by Jim Woodring, this nostalgic artifact is now available on GitHub for developers and historians to explore, modernize, and celebrate as a unique chapter in internet history.

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