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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > remember clippy?
 
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Coffee Jones
Jul 4, 2004

16 bit? Back when we was kids we only got a single bit on Christmas, as a treat
And we had to share it!
The feature drew a strongly negative response from many users.[4][5] Microsoft turned off the feature by default in Office XP, acknowledging its unpopularity in an ad campaign spoofing Clippy.[6] The feature was removed altogether in Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac, as it continued to draw criticism even from Microsoft employees.

gone longer than he’s been around, which puts ‘lol clippy lol’ on par with “Why doesn’t MTV play music videos anymore?”
but...

2005 - giving a PowerPoint to a hundred people with a projector and an audio setup for embedded video. Clippy pops up five minutes into the talk and ‘taps’ on the screen.
You can get in early and have VGA cables in hand, and make sure the audio all works and is set to a proper volume for the room, and do everything right and then FAAAAAAAAARRRTTTTTT

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