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Who remembers Microsoft Chat? When the Internet reached the general public, the chat programs where dominated by IRC, which was a text-only conversation experience. To go away from that limitation, Microsoft created Chaf, which automatically generated a comic strip based on the smileys. The program was automatically installed with Internet Explorer up to 2000.Nowadays, the font Comic Sans is the last remainder of that time. It was created for the balloons' text
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