What kind of crazy things have people done with Comic Chat?
Comic Chat uses the IRC protocol, but sends gesture, character, and profile information via another protocol that Microsoft built on top of IRC. Almost immediately after placing Comic Chat on the Net, people were reverse-engineering our protocol to make bots (automatic robot avatar characters) that would always appear as a particular character, that would express emotion graphically, and would hand tailor their profile based on who was asking the question! People have also built bots to act out (in Comic Book form) Shakespeare as well as Abbott and Costello!
