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I remember the MS Comic Chat days too :-)

• kqvamxurcagg 6y ago
  Was this the same as MSN Messenger? Got a lot of nostalgia from the PowWow UI. In Europe we used MSN Messenger pretty exclusively in the late 90s, early 2000's while ICQ and AOL were more popular in the US.
  • efdee 6y ago
    Not at all. MS Comic Chat was an IRC client that presented the entire chat as a comic book. I think it's also where the Comic Sans font originated. # Appears as XENO.
    • Mountain_Skies 6y ago
      I thought Comic Sans came from Microsoft Bob but according to Wikipedia, Microsoft Bob was the intended use but the typeface wasn't ready in time so it was first release in Microsoft 3D Movie Maker and then went on to other uses like Comic Chat and the Large Hadron Collider.
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  • Daniel_sk 6y ago
    Not true for entire Europe. ICQ was de facto standard in Czech Republic and Slovakia. No MSN Messanger at all.