Jim Woodring was such an odd, but wonderful, choice of artist for this project. I thought his surreal style worked so well as a visualization of what at the time was newly called “cyberspace”. This could have been a totally flavorless corporate thing instead.
Microsoft Comic Chat
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#12Used to love MS comic chat back in the day. A lot of fun times on there.
MMOs kind of took over from it, Ragnarok Online being the main one.
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#13The longest running web comic on the Internet called "Jerk City / Bonequest" uses Microsoft Comic Chat to render
It is 20 years old this year, and has never missed a day.
https://www.bonequest.com/7541
(May not be SFW, depending on where you work)
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#14I loved this - it was a wonderful hybrid of direct chat with simplistic graphical representation of how people would express themselves in chat before the existence of graphical emoticons.
It would be interesting to create something like this for the MUD experience.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but words sometimes can be worth a thousand mental pictures.
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#15This really takes me back. Microsoft Comic Chat, for better or worse, was essentially my intro into the internet. I must've been maybe 10 when I started talking on it, and after they wound it down I switched to MSN Chat, and then quickly onto IRC itself. It was a certainly innovative, but maybe its ability to get kids involved in the internet (at a time it was sort of the wild west) contributed to it going away.
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#16Shades of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_(computer_program)
Reminds me a little of Bob too.
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#17mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux
What am I missing... these all seem like non-sequiters.
You need to be versed in the deep lore to understand it, basically.
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#18mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux
What am I missing... these all seem like non-sequiters.
Chat room snippets would tend to lean that way. It's definitely a unique format for humour. Personally, I love it, and I can't begin to explain why.
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#19Jim Woodring deserves way, way more attention from geeks than he gets.
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#20Here's a list of 20+ discontinued Microsoft products in the realm of communications. Comic chat is on the list.
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...