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positiveSYS.SOURCE: Microsoft Open Source Blog• 2026-07-16T16:06:27Z

Microsoft Releases Open-Source Archive of 1990s Comic Chat Application

#open source#software history#comic sans

Microsoft has open-sourced the 1990s-era Comic Chat application, a pioneering chat client that transformed IRC conversations into comic panels using Comic Sans. The release preserves a significant piece of software history and enables exploration of its Visual C++ 4.0/MFC implementation and early conversational AI experiments.

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