Comic Sams actually shipped with Internet Explorer 3-5 and Win98+. The font was meant for Comic Chat which came with IE3-5, an IRC chat application. https://en.

Comic Sams actually shipped with Internet Explorer 3-5 and Win98+. The font was meant for Comic Chat which came with IE3-5, an IRC chat application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat You have to install IE on Win95 to get the font. IE4 included the Win95 shell upgrade which meant it turned Win95 to look like Win98. So a lot of people installed it.