Clippy was an animated virtual assistant in Microsoft Office that most millennials remember, but now it's primarily seen as a ...

Do you remember Clippy? Before Cortana, Alexa, and Siri existed, the anthropomorphic paperclip-shaped assistant dominated the screens of computers everywhere in the 1990s to help Microsoft Office 2001 ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – A tiny anthropomorphized paperclip is making a comeback as people revive Clippy’s memory in protest. Remember Clippy, a paperclip with floating eyes that served as Microsoft Office’s ...

Every wonder where paperclips end up when they disappear from your desk, only be to lost and forgotten over time? I imagine it is a sad existence. Clippy, Microsoft's love-to-hate Office assistant ...

Roz Ho, a former Microsoft executive who was at the company during Clippy’s conception, said that early focus group feedback from female users on Clippy and other Office assistants was “kind of ...

Remember Clippy? Of course you do - if you were around in the 90s anyway, when the iconic paperclip was unleashed as Microsoft's assistant for Office. But the helper wasn't created on a Windows 95 PC, ...