Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Name: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Uploaded: 2026-07-25T15:00:19+00:00
Description: GitHub shares that Microsoft Comic Chat, a classic IRC client from 1996, has been open-sourced on GitHub, including original source snapshots and...

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GitHub highlights that Microsoft Comic Chat is now officially open source on GitHub.

Overview

What it is: Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client originally shipped in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3.
What made it unique: It turned plain-text IRC conversations into visual comic panels.
Notable historical detail: It was one of the first programs to feature the Comic Sans font.
What the repository contains:
- Original source snapshots
- Modernization experiments aimed at running Comic Chat on current versions of Windows