Microsoft Comic Chat, an experimental IRC client that transformed online conversations into comic strips, has been released as open-source software. The complete source code is now available on GitHub ...

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.

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 ...

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

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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.

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Oracle is moving to stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port of the Java Development Kit (JDK) from version 27, which is expected in September. JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal) 8386091 states that "Oracle ...

The Internal Revenue Service has been rolling out live chat applications with customer service representatives and automated chatbots in recent years, but the questionable answers they provide could ...