The source code for Microsoft Comic Chat is now available, opening up the workings of a project released in 1996 that turned ...

Remember that tool from the mid-90s that could turn chats into comics and gave us Comic Sans? You can now mess with its code.

The source code behind Microsoft's 30 year old Comic Chat IRC client is now available on Github for the first time.

Microsoft Comic Chat is a Microsoft-developed Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chat client released in 1996 that rendered conversations as automatically generated comic strips. Instead of plain text, users ...

Despite having a spot in the corner of the Gmail web interface, Google Chat doesn't often get the attention it deserves. It's ...

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

It’s a word ripped from Twitch streams, but it functions as a Greek chorus for an online, isolated generation. By Barrett Swanson While serving as an English professor at a small Midwestern university ...

Hearing squeaky little voices in your online games may be a thing of the past, at least in the United Kingdom. As the British government continues to take steps to combat the effects of the internet ...

Nick Epley was commuting to work at the University of Chicago when he looked across the train and wondered: Why are all these people sitting elbow to elbow ignoring each other? Epley, a professor of ...