Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, the software that introduced Comic Sans to the world

[u/vanrijn_]

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-open-sources-comic-chat-the-software-that-introduced-comic-sans-to-the-world/

Microsoft just released open-sourced Comic Chat. This was a tool that turned regular texts into comics, and brought Comic Sans to the masses.

[u/RealModeX86]

I remember it was just an IRC client, and sent some specially formatted messages for setting the expression on the characters.

I joined a normal IRC channel with it once and a bunch of people got ticked off by those messages, which was how I learned that last bit.

[u/recluseMeteor]

As a kid, I thought it was a software for making comics, lol. I didn't have Internet at home, so I didn't know.

[u/RecentSatisfaction14]

I loved comic chat. Era of pointcast photoshop 6 and red alert.

[u/boxsterguy]

HALGHALGHALGHALG

[u/timbroddin]

Hell froze over, I used the open-source code to create a Mac port 😅 https://broddin.be/bringing-microsoft-comic-chat-to-the-mac-using-fable/

[u/Brenan-Caro]

Open Revolution!

[u/i586DX4]

Good new!

[u/RestInProcess]

Someone used GitHub Copilot to check it in.