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And iChat's use of the speech bubbles for IM dates back to 1997: http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/03/the-origin-of-the-ichat-ui/ http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/0
by rajbot 15y ago
And iChat's use of the speech bubbles for IM dates back to 1997:
http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/03/the-origin-of-the-ichat-ui/ http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/03/the-origin-of-the-ichat-ui...
A very novel UI at the time.. here is a cached version of the broken pic: http://6.media.tumblr.com/MitMvSO0c6w81bbgrsKunjNE_500.png http://6.media.tumblr.com/MitMvSO0c6w81bbgrsKunjNE_500.png
- lusr 15y agoMicrosoft Comic Chat, first released 13 August 1996, even crazier UI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat First demo January 1996: http://kurlander.net/DJ/Videos/ComicChatVideo.shtml http://kurlander.net/DJ/Videos/ComicChatVideo.shtml
- troels 15y agowtf. that's just awesome. why aren't everyone using that?
- heresy 15y agoEven funnier, the military used it in the Iraq war to communicate. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/battlefield_pr.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/battlefield_pr.html "We'll be in the middle of a battle and a bunch of field artillery colonels will come online in the form of these big-breasted blondes."
- fennecfoxen 15y agoBecause (a) IRC is relatively dead (b) it sent a bunch of funny formatting codes which are a mess to read if you're not using Comic Chat too and everyone else was annoyed with that (c) it's kind of hard to find a copy these days. But it was a fun little client back in the day.