Clippy was an animated virtual assistant in Microsoft Office that most millennials remember, but now it's primarily seen as a meme and in pop culture.
Microsoft has added Clippy into Microsoft Teams as part of a sticker pack. “Clippy has agreed to come out of retirement! Whether you loved him or hated him, Clippy is back with a Retro Sticker Pack in ...
It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...
Microsoft’s iconic Office Assistant, Clippy, is taking over profile pictures across YouTube, X, and other platforms, and it’s no nostalgia trip. The trend began after YouTuber and consumer rights ...
Microsoft's animated paper clip named Clippy has been revived, thanks to the crazy sense of humor of the folks at startup Smore. We discovered the Clippy.js project, through a Google+ post by Linux ...
If you’re old enough to remember when 8MB thumb drives hit the scene, you’ll probably remember Clippy, Microsoft’s digital writing assistant. Clippy lived in the bottom corner of Microsoft Office from ...
Gordon Freeman. Doomguy. Guybrush Threepwood. Clippy. Okay, so our list of iconic characters on PC gets a bit weird if you start including software mascots, but Clippy was an inescapable part of ...
If you used Microsoft years ago, you may remember Clippy, an animated paperclip with big eyebrows and even bigger eyes. The tool was established in 1997, developing lovers and haters alike, as he ...
Kevan Atteberry, the man behind Microsoft Word's virtual assistant, had no idea how big Clippy would be today, especially after the growing disdain for the anthropomorphic paperclip throughout the ...
Clippy debuted with the release of Microsoft's Office 97 bundle. In 2001 Microsoft demoted the assistant. Now people can bring Clippy to the Mac if they so choose. Clippy, Microsoft's ...
Microsoft is planning to bring Clippy, its Office 97 assistant that looks like a paperclip, back to Windows. The software giant tweeted a photo of Clippy saying that, if the post received 20,000 likes ...
Microsoft's Greg Duncan noted the return of Clippy, the infamous cartoon paperclip that served as an assistant for users of the Office productivity software suite many years ago. "Eros Fratini ...