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Comment by 29athrowaway

6 months ago

The nerd emoji and the Clippy like assistants come from Microsoft Bob.

Another interesting product from that era was Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client that rendered conversations as a comic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

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