Re: Anyone remember comic chat?

On May 3, 2004, at 4:25 AM, Nigel Whitfield wrote:
> On 1 May 2004, at 21:51, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone remembered Microsoft Comic Chat from around 
>> 1996.  It was a kinda nifty program.  It would be super cool if we 
>> could do something like that.  anyway, just a thought.
>
> I remember it. It was horrible. Around that time I was helping to 
> manage an IRC channel, and the best advice we could give people was to 
> use a proper client, instead of that awful spawn of Satan.

Then, Nik said:
> Far as adding such features to Fire goes, even having some sort of 
> animated buddy icon character that works only with other Fire clients 
> (don't know how they'd announce themselves to one another) might be 
> very cute.

I'm just saying I think the general concept might be interesting.  Not 
an exact copy, and certainly not the same implementation, but just 
something where maybe you could easily change your buddy icon to happy, 
grumpy, goofy, etc.  Something along those lines.

-Jonathan