Clippy, Microsoft’s unwanted, unloved Office assistant, once listed as one of Time’s 50 Worst Inventions, is experiencing a renaissance. You remember Clippy. He was the animated paper clip who would ...

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Well, Twitter might have just cursed us all (but what else is new?). In a tweet we learned about via The Verge, Microsoft proposed replacing the paperclip emoji in Microsoft Office with Clippy. Yes, ...

Remember Clippy? It was the animated paperclip that "helpfully" assisted Microsoft Office users if they were typing up a Word document, making a PowerPoint, or working on an Excel Spreadsheet.

Does the name Clippy ring a bell? If it does not, it might be easier for Microsoft users to recall the paper clip-shaped talking animation with googly eyes everyone thought disappeared from existence ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Clippy hasn't had an easy life. Microsoft's iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paperclip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the ...

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 the paperclip could soon return to Microsoft Office. The cartoon paperclip, which first popped up to offer assistance to Office users in 1997, was retired in the early 2000s but could return as ...

Clippy, the hero of Microsoft Office, is now an emoji. Microsoft introduced a suite of new emoji to celebrate World Emoji Day (yes, that’s a thing, and it’s July 17), and while they’re all fun, ...

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Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. In 2021, meme culture is everpresent. In 1997 it was still developing, but Clippy, the Microsoft Office for ...