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Microsoft open sources Comic Chat, the 90s IRC client that helped introduce Comic Sans.
The source code for Microsoft Comic Chat is now available, opening up the workings of a project released in 1996 that turned the walls of text from chats into comic strips, generating panels and illustrations that represent the chat and are still backward-compatible with text-only clients. I wasn’t familiar with the app until now, although it apparently shipped as part of Internet Explorer 3.0, and used Microsoft typographer Vincent Connare’s then-new font for its speech bubbles. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/fasf.webp?quality=90&strip=all]
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neowin.net
Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, the software that introduced Comic Sans to the world
Remember that tool from the mid-90s that could turn chats into comics and gave us Comic Sans? You can now mess with its code.
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theverge.com
Microsoft open sources Comic Chat, the 90s IRC client that helped introduce Comic Sans.
The source code for Microsoft Comic Chat is now available, opening up the workings of a project released in 1996 that turned the walls of text from chats into comic strips,…
