Step back three decades to a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines Microsoft has open sourced Comic Chat, its short lived 1990s experiment in turning Internet Relay Chat IRC conversations into comic strips – and, for many users, their first encounter with Comic Sans. Microsoft Comic Chat was released in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3. It was conceived by David DJ Kurlander of the Microsoft Research Virtual Worlds Group as a new visual representation of conversation...
