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hedora 67 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

This came out of Microsoft Research, which was a bit of a safe haven from such stuff back then.

MSN Chat was the full corporate bundled with windows program that matches your description of ‘90s Microsoft. A non-monetized chat app targeting decentralized protocols definitely was not.

Sharlin 67 days ago [–]

Still, they managed to Embrace&Extend the IRC protocol in a way that was annoying to anyone not using Comic Chat.

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