@@alarmy5211 That was a very subtle way to tell someone to not spend ages in front of the screen. And the help was already given simply by that reminder.
I also think there are a lot of ppl who are not happy with the depressing way the world is going. Tech is so boring and bland. Desktop buddies were something fun. They can be annoying and unpredictable, but that is how real life pets and ppl are.
Perhaps the issue with clippy was that the people who an assistant like that *would* have helped just weren't using computers at all in the first place. Back in the 90s most people using computers were business people or weird nerds, that's not so much the case now.
I wonder if it's not because a lot of stuff seems less obvious than it was. Back in the day GUI software was designed to mimic what you would do with whatever machine you were replacing with your PC. Nowadays it's not always as obvious - probably because most of us no longer used the machines the PC has replaced, so designers see no reason to pander to our expectations. I first used Windows 3.1 while i was an undergraduate working in a cleaning job in a leisure centre that still had typewriters for the office staff. I became a computer genius in the eyes of one of my colleagues when I pointed out she could put down her dictionary and click on the spellcheck icon. Since then, during my career, I've configured specialist booking systems (for the same company.. I moved up and stayed on) and i'm currently using a highly specialised 3d design and print package to make medical devices at my local hospital, as i started during lockdown, it's been largely self taught with input from my manager aimed more at what he (as a consultant) needs than how to get the design he wants from the software.. thank the gods for youTube demos! These days though, I sometimes look at my laptop and really can't figure out how to change the basics. First time I took some holiday, it took me an hour to set an out of office message on Outlook, partly because in my previous job we used Google, but mostly because the simple drop down menus of the past are gone and nothing obvious I clicked on would bring up the option until I gave up and headed for the help file.. and even then, having done it once, it was so unintuitive I had to go to help again the next time I needed to set it because I'd forgotten where it was.
Our teacher hated clippy, we loved it. Everytime a student turned it on, and we'd all be left unsupervised while she went to find the IT guy to turn it off again. It was glorious.
I found Clippy annoying at the time so I picked Rocky instead. As a kid who loved but didn't own a dog, it almost turned Word into a virtual pet game for me. Plus it was nice just having a cute bud hanging out while you did your homework. I miss him.
@@RinaldoJonathan That's Rover, Rocky is the office assistant who has a very different design, but they're both still yellow Microsoft dogs whose names start with R, so I can see why you mixed them up. Rocky is 2D and has more of a blunt snout, less of a pointed one, and he's a little chubbier.
I loved Rocky's animations, like the one where he notices a little document pop up, and then he pulls out a flamethrower and fuel pack and burns it. XD
Being a 90's kid, I found the office assistant fairly helpful, which makes sense because I was a kid. As much nostalgia Clippy brings, I always swapped him out for F1, for no other reason then to hear my father holler "where the hell is my damn paperclip!" from his office. What a time to be alive.
lol those were the days. dial up internet, old windows, internet explorer, and so on. I keep a couple vintage PCs around just to relive it from time to time. "Get off the internet I need to use the phone." Born in 93 here btw
I actually have a lot of nostalgia for Clippy. I associate him with my childhood, sitting in front of my parents’ CRT box Windows XP PC and doing all sorts of random stuff. He’d pop up at random and try his best to give me tips and advice while doing all sorts of crazy twisty movements. I was a kid and just playing around, so I found him cute and funny. But I can understand why adults and students who are trying to do work would get annoyed with him really quick.
Same, I was like 6 years old when I met him, so of course I found him cute and funny at the time. Not even sure what I was using Ms Office for, probably for writing my Pokemon stories (mostly shamelessly plagiarizing work done by people older than me tbh and changing a few details) but he is a nice memory from that time
@@twotruckslyrics that makes it two of us I guess lol. I was about 8-9 and shamelessly stealing from some teenagers and even showed it to my family members to brag how well I can write for my age
@@magdajabonska537 this but for drawing. id look up “pokemon fusion” or “bill cipher” and essentially steal the art straight from google and try to draw it on my notebook paper, then show it to my parents… 7 yr old me was interesting? i dont trace anymore and have been drawin digitally for 3 years now :) kinda fun to look back on how it started lol
Y’know I always wondered why people found Clippy so obnoxious, but I was a little kid at the time he was around, so once you explained what made him so annoying to adults it all made sense. Funny how being an adult can completely change your feelings about something like that. Also I actually really like Clippy’s 2D design. It’s cute. I was used to his 3D one.
I used to change the Office Assistant from Clippy to Scribble (the one that looks like a cat). Never used it for assistance but I love to have a cat on my screen as I type documents though. Stress relieving honestly.
I remember Clippy as a kid. I never used it for its intended purpose, but I liked seeing the little animations he did, so I'd often right click and click on "Animate!". I thought they were fun.
I'm too young to be born in the era of Clippy, but I have seen him once. Early on in primary school, our librarian would usually bring his own laptop to school. One day however, he brought an older laptop with him, I assume this was because something happened to his main one. He connected it to the projector and started going through some document with us. I remember seeing Clippy at the bottom right of the screen. He did not move, he did not say anything, he merely just stood there, menacingly. Fast forward to 2023 and I still don't use any assistants, apart from autocorrect. Clippy came at a poor time, but it walked, so all the assistants we have today could run.
I remember Clippy from my childhood in the 2000s and I was illiterate so I couldn't read what he was saying but I remember finding him extremely friendly. Back in the days I was using Windows XP for paint and pinball. When I started learning French by the 3rd grade, I became familiar with the Latin alphabet and could understand what Clippy offered. I wasn't so keen on Word yet because I was still figuring out the keyboard letters and tried my best to write simple sentences and insert images from the internet without formatting tho. Later on, both my parents got a laptop each and that desktop was spare. Mom had Windows XP whereas dad had Windows 7. I do not remember Clippy to be anywhere on dad's computer however. I couldn't figure out why things were different. I don't know exactly when Windows Vista was released, but uncle had it and I don't remember Clippy showing up there either. Thanks for the video. This revived over 15 years of memories.
I remember when I was a kid and I made PowerPoints about silly stuff on Windows XP, I absolutely adored Clippy. I'd spend hours making my PowerPoints and just playing with his animations. My favorite animation of his is the one where he has headphones. ^^ Personally I'd be ecstatic if they bring him back. It would be like finding a beloved toy from your childhood again.
I always thought Clippy was adorable. Even if he was annoying. He never deserved as much hate as he got. Not that I don't find it hilarious when people get mad at him. But I sincerely hope he becomes the face of a super powerful AI. That would be the best
I quite liked the office assistants as a child. It blew my little mind back then when discovering that you could change clippy. He got annoying after a while. Then I changed it to the cat and that was much more appreciated, even if the bubble messages would not become less. But this kitty cat was so sweet - it went to sleep after a while and it purred and even greeted you with a meow xD I loved the "animation!" feature, even if it was soooo distracting...You just wanted to see what the assistant is doing next.
I remember loving Clippy when I was a 6 year old in 2001. I obviously wasn't typing up papers but I used to love getting on Word 2000 just to see him come up. I was super sad when I booted up Word 2007 at school and realized he was gone. On top of the program being entirely different from Word 2000.
i used to love making powerpoints as a kid and i absolutely ADORED the different virtual assistants. clippy was so fun and cute and i loved having him around, he was so cool to me as a kid
I was a young kid during XP's heyday, and I remember being quite amused by Clippy and the other avatars. I think my favourite was the dog assistant. Looking back, they weren't helpful at all, but they did entertain my young self, so...at least that was something, right?
I've always liked Clippy. During the Clippy era I liked to use Word to copy/paste random images I found into documents, look at the fonts that turned letters into images and symbols and write nonsense, because I had yet to learn how to write. At that age it's probably a surprise to nobody that a shapeshifting cartoon character doing funny things would be appealing. During my school years when we started using the school's computers between the 00s and 10s I remember we would get caught up in playing with Clippy and the other characters you could pick and not instantly get started on what we were actually supposed to do.
And because it was boring, people used BonziBuddy later released in 1999. But had a problem: see it wasn’t just a fun assistant, it would steal your personal information plus it was a malware and an adware. This made a lot of damage so it was sued many times in early 2000’s so it had to be shut down in 2004.
clippy was absolutely useless to me, but i loved playing around with him and all the other assistants. they had funny animations, and i believe they could tell jokes aswell, greatly entertaining
I remember back in the early 2000s where me and my two older brothers were huddled around the computer in our bedroom. Kids being kids, we downloaded everything we possibly could on the internet, so our XP install was terribly slow. One day, explorer crashed and nothing was on the desktop besides the background - Bliss. We spammed every key on the keyboard hoping that would fix the issue, but only Clippy popped out of nowhere and scared us shitless! I sincerely miss when computers had personality and design; I miss when computers didn't lean into minimalism so much.
As a child who had very few friends, I ADORED Clippy. Even before I could read, I would get on MS Word and try to get him to appear so I could hang out with him. I thought he was my friend! We were buddies! :)
I remember the day I first saw Clippy as a Microsoft word assistant on my parents' computer. I didn't use him as an assistant, I just liked the idea of your sort of friend just sitting with you while you work. Then my computer broke and I never saw it again because then I had a newer version of Word installed where it was removed. When I found out that most people hated it, I was very surprised, because I really liked the way your virtual assistant interacted with you and did some cool stuff. Now I understand why the idea failed. It was a good idea for children, but he only annoyed adults with his unexpected appearance and useless questions. If Clippy were some kind of add-on for kids to make their time on the computer more fun, then I think it would have been successfull.
I loved Links as a kid (the cat) and enjoyed having someone keeping me company while I did my homework. I missed him so much I actually downloaded these things called shimejis - basically characters that live on your desktop and throw your windows around. (They always had viruses though). I would love to see a video on the history of shimejis
I remember Clippy. The biggest issue was that it was annoying, a hinderance, & it asked the most asinine questions/gave the most useless hints/tips. All basic stuff anyone using a computer already knows, or stuff that is completely irrelevant. & it was in your face covering up your work, it wasn't just a little toolbar/icon off to the side, nope, they had to put it jumping out in your face every 5 seconds. SMH.
It wasn't that Clippy was annoying. It was that it was useless. It would offer generic advice that we already knew. Clippy was like the FAQ on a product. It didn't actually answer the question you were asking. It would spout off a laundry list of solutions that never addressed the real problem. FAQs are generally useless, and other sites tend to parrot them without actually know a damn thing about the subject. It's ridiculous that you have to seek out other people who are not of the company to get the answers you need.
I remember when I was VERY little (I was born in 94 so I must've been like, three or four) that I REALLY liked Clippy lol. My Dad would sometimes let me play around on his computer, and I would make little scenes for Clippy. Houses and stuff (I don't know if I was doing that in Paint or Office though, it was so long ago... was Clippy in paint? I have no idea honestly). And then drag him around like he was walking in it. I couldn't read yet so he wasn't annoying, I guess I still have a small soft spot for the old paperclip lol
I never had any use for Clippy's "assistance" but I enjoyed having him in the corner of the screen. It was like having a little companion to sit with me and occassionally entertain me with his little animations while I was writing whatever boring school paper I had to write. Even better was when I was in fifth grade, when my teacher showed me that other characters existed. Being a cat lover, I immediately fell in love with Links and always wanted that cute little kitty up in the corner of my document.
I got my first computer when I was 7, in 2006. It was an old computer running windows 95 and Clippy felt so futuristic to me lol. It was my first time using a computer and I thought he was cute. It didn't take long for my dad to buy a new one with Vista, get internet access in our house (this is not in the US, btw. Things were different) and just like that Clippy was gone for me. I wish he made a return as an advanced AI tool
I can't help but notice and appreciate how you don't assume a watcher has seen all your other videos. Whenever a topic is relevant on a recurring basis, you still take the time to explain what you're talking about every time, without going into excessive detail if it's not the main focus. It's great for a newcomer who might be learning something new. For a returning viewer, it doesn't feel repetitive, it just creates a sense of perspective that highlights how connected everything is. It works really well when you're talking about the history of technology and the Internet and how it affects and reflects culture. It's also nice whenever you do end up taking a closer look at something you've mentioned before, like Microsoft Bob here. Really nice work.
With the addition of clippy's possible return, I'm afraid Microsoft would have already been beaten to the chase that hasn't happened yet I'm from the future. coming back here, I can tell you there is a guy on his Linux laptop trying to create an assistant that can execute system commands from your own computer (with your permission), look at your files (with permission), look up on the internet (with curl) and even have system information at hand ($SHELL, $USER, $LANG, $HOME, ect) it will be an open source program that anybody can install and will even utilize David Shapiro's RAVEN. I heard he is even working on setting up servers so that it can seamlessly port memories from device to device.
My sister and I LOVED playing around with Clippy and the other AI tools as kids! Mostly for the animations. So, he holds a fond place in my heart, even if he was useless.
Okay, I complain about the "AI" buzzword a lot with Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion obviously not being AI but this takes the cake. Calling Clippit/Clippy an "AI" is just nuts lmao.
We have a very cool Open Source AI project where people can create their own "Wingman" which is basically a customizable AI assistant. Guess what, Clippy was one of the first ones one of our community members created and is now part of the core Wingmen we rollout to people. So if you want to check out "modern day real AI Clippy", you might want to check it out!
I loved playing with clippy as a kid. I feel like I remember you could change him into other characters too. He was my friend. People hate him too much.
0:03 “George Harrison Sandwich” - by that do you mean a sandwich named after George Harrison, pictures of George Harrison visiting Sandwich, pictures of George Harrison making a sandwich, or pictures of George Harrison eating a sandwich? Any way you meant it, the folder name sounds interesting.
I never understood the hate against Clippy, I remember it being around when I was using computers at the university writing papers and the like. It didn't really bother me, although it wasn't really helpful, I have fond memories of it coming with (useless) advices , those cool small animations , especially when it kind of broke the 4th wall by poking on the screen. As I was writing and going through dry academic papers , I welcomed those small and funny interruptions, and I always thought the animations were well done. It's probably nostalgia talking, but I would activate the Clippy functionality on Office on a hearthbeat today if it came back, useful or not.
I remember Clippy! I was introduced to "him" in my law firm job in the 90s. I found him helpful sometimes but did have to have IT show me how to hide him at times. Loved seeing you on White Oak! Great video!
As a kid I really liked Clippy, mainly because of the quirky animations. In hindsight, the assistant probably wasn't that useful, but I don't think that it was as terrible as it's made out to be either.
The spammer in the live chat is like that one car that always speeds past red lights, except for the fact that the human-spam bot wouldn't get punished the same way that a speeding car would.
watching this after the one about Bob, and i'm a bit disappointed you didn't mention that the designer was a children's book illustrator. Really felt like i was looking at a page from some ancient children's book when i saw the clips of Bob.
I have nostalgia for clippy for sure. My childhood was the 80s and I begged my mom for a personal computer saying she could forgo all other gifts if I got one. Clipy was totally my friend in my earliest learning processes on the computer. I outgrew him quickly, but I actually sometimes found his image bouncing in the corner comforting.
I somehow have nostalgia for Clippy even though he was already removed from Word when I was born; I was in elementary school until late 2018 and they didn't have new computers yet, so they were using the same ones they got in the early 2000s. We had beige square IBM computers with floppy drives and Windows XP, and when we had computer class, they taught us how to use Clippy, even though he was long dead!
I never had the fortune to use it, but I asked my father if he ever used it and he said "He was an adorable little fellow, I loved messing with him" I really hope they bring him back!
I always used the dog instead, if I used any of the assistants at all. ... my username probably gives away as to why XD EDIT: "Clippy could become an extension of chatgpt--" Aaaaaand that's 100 times worse than just having a paper clip annoying you while you work, no thank you!! (:
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The fact that some people felt like the paperclip was trying to make moves on them is funnier than it should be
Women, stupid as allways
It looks like you’re trying to take a shower…
*Would you like some help with that?*
@@acevant7535 I AM a paperclip, we’re known to have a way with locks.
@@alarmy5211 That was a very subtle way to tell someone to not spend ages in front of the screen. And the help was already given simply by that reminder.
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If they are bringing back clippy they have to make him look and animate him like his late 90s version
yeah, don't make him grow up!
They should make him an ai assistant with gpt 5 or higher
no they should yassify him
@@blooberri666it should have bot, and ou should be able to toggle both
@@St4r_Z0mb13also a customizable set of features. let me put a little hat on him :3
With the fact that people now miss Clippy, I'm also convinced that he was just way ahead of his time
lol
I also think there are a lot of ppl who are not happy with the depressing way the world is going. Tech is so boring and bland. Desktop buddies were something fun. They can be annoying and unpredictable, but that is how real life pets and ppl are.
Perhaps the issue with clippy was that the people who an assistant like that *would* have helped just weren't using computers at all in the first place. Back in the 90s most people using computers were business people or weird nerds, that's not so much the case now.
I wonder if it's not because a lot of stuff seems less obvious than it was.
Back in the day GUI software was designed to mimic what you would do with whatever machine you were replacing with your PC. Nowadays it's not always as obvious - probably because most of us no longer used the machines the PC has replaced, so designers see no reason to pander to our expectations.
I first used Windows 3.1 while i was an undergraduate working in a cleaning job in a leisure centre that still had typewriters for the office staff. I became a computer genius in the eyes of one of my colleagues when I pointed out she could put down her dictionary and click on the spellcheck icon.
Since then, during my career, I've configured specialist booking systems (for the same company.. I moved up and stayed on) and i'm currently using a highly specialised 3d design and print package to make medical devices at my local hospital, as i started during lockdown, it's been largely self taught with input from my manager aimed more at what he (as a consultant) needs than how to get the design he wants from the software.. thank the gods for youTube demos!
These days though, I sometimes look at my laptop and really can't figure out how to change the basics.
First time I took some holiday, it took me an hour to set an out of office message on Outlook, partly because in my previous job we used Google, but mostly because the simple drop down menus of the past are gone and nothing obvious I clicked on would bring up the option until I gave up and headed for the help file.. and even then, having done it once, it was so unintuitive I had to go to help again the next time I needed to set it because I'd forgotten where it was.
We needed multicore CPUs to effectively run clippy lol single core made it the dumbest idea ever conceived.
All he wanted to do was help, and he got so much hate 😥 poor Clippy. He did nothing wrong
Justice for clippy
I like clippy and want him on windows 11 . copilot is plain ol' boring with no animations
"it looks like you're writing a letter"
He was thrown under the bus and abandoned by his creator 😔 justice for Clippy
I know, tears me up well I've got something in my eye.
The best thing is how Clippy became the paperclip emoji in Windows 10 and 11. He may not be mandatory, but he's still remembered.
Is he still the emoji?
There's a small subset of Microsoft employees that are still fans. Too bad none of them are the CEO :'(
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@@AllCrimesAreNowLegal im on iphone and yes it still is
@@Pacman009 me too lol
still hoping for clippy to have his grand return
Windows 12?
Same
More like a redemption arc
@@FlynMaker7windows lore
Pretty sure it's not happening. Atleast not with the character of clippy. Maybe as a more all-round implementation of bing chat, since AI is so big
Our teacher hated clippy, we loved it. Everytime a student turned it on, and we'd all be left unsupervised while she went to find the IT guy to turn it off again. It was glorious.
I knew it, dude! Old loud people hated Clippy! But millennials and gen Z got his back!
I found Clippy annoying at the time so I picked Rocky instead. As a kid who loved but didn't own a dog, it almost turned Word into a virtual pet game for me. Plus it was nice just having a cute bud hanging out while you did your homework. I miss him.
Clippy was a positive, encouraging and helpful for me. I think my childhood was a sad one 😂
ah ... that cute but useless dog in windows search ... which is also useless.
Ah that little dog was a lovely little avatar
@@RinaldoJonathan That's Rover, Rocky is the office assistant who has a very different design, but they're both still yellow Microsoft dogs whose names start with R, so I can see why you mixed them up. Rocky is 2D and has more of a blunt snout, less of a pointed one, and he's a little chubbier.
I loved Rocky's animations, like the one where he notices a little document pop up, and then he pulls out a flamethrower and fuel pack and burns it. XD
Being a 90's kid, I found the office assistant fairly helpful, which makes sense because I was a kid.
As much nostalgia Clippy brings, I always swapped him out for F1, for no other reason then to hear my father holler "where the hell is my damn paperclip!" from his office.
What a time to be alive.
lol those were the days. dial up internet, old windows, internet explorer, and so on. I keep a couple vintage PCs around just to relive it from time to time. "Get off the internet I need to use the phone." Born in 93 here btw
😁👍🤣 Sounded more like my old man!
I actually have a lot of nostalgia for Clippy. I associate him with my childhood, sitting in front of my parents’ CRT box Windows XP PC and doing all sorts of random stuff. He’d pop up at random and try his best to give me tips and advice while doing all sorts of crazy twisty movements. I was a kid and just playing around, so I found him cute and funny. But I can understand why adults and students who are trying to do work would get annoyed with him really quick.
Same, I was like 6 years old when I met him, so of course I found him cute and funny at the time. Not even sure what I was using Ms Office for, probably for writing my Pokemon stories (mostly shamelessly plagiarizing work done by people older than me tbh and changing a few details) but he is a nice memory from that time
@@magdajabonska537YOU JUST UNINTENTIONALLY CALLED ME OUT ON THAT POKEMON PART HELP ME
@@twotruckslyrics that makes it two of us I guess lol. I was about 8-9 and shamelessly stealing from some teenagers and even showed it to my family members to brag how well I can write for my age
@@magdajabonska537 this but for drawing. id look up “pokemon fusion” or “bill cipher” and essentially steal the art straight from google and try to draw it on my notebook paper, then show it to my parents… 7 yr old me was interesting?
i dont trace anymore and have been drawin digitally for 3 years now :) kinda fun to look back on how it started lol
Y’know I always wondered why people found Clippy so obnoxious, but I was a little kid at the time he was around, so once you explained what made him so annoying to adults it all made sense. Funny how being an adult can completely change your feelings about something like that.
Also I actually really like Clippy’s 2D design. It’s cute. I was used to his 3D one.
I used to change the Office Assistant from Clippy to Scribble (the one that looks like a cat). Never used it for assistance but I love to have a cat on my screen as I type documents though. Stress relieving honestly.
I had Scribble too. Same reason - kitty!
Exactly! I loved this little kitty cat. And it fell asleep after a while of having word open, that was so adorable.
I remember Clippy as a kid. I never used it for its intended purpose, but I liked seeing the little animations he did, so I'd often right click and click on "Animate!". I thought they were fun.
Omg I'd do that too 😂
I'm too young to be born in the era of Clippy, but I have seen him once. Early on in primary school, our librarian would usually bring his own laptop to school. One day however, he brought an older laptop with him, I assume this was because something happened to his main one. He connected it to the projector and started going through some document with us. I remember seeing Clippy at the bottom right of the screen. He did not move, he did not say anything, he merely just stood there, menacingly.
Fast forward to 2023 and I still don't use any assistants, apart from autocorrect. Clippy came at a poor time, but it walked, so all the assistants we have today could run.
"He's just *standing* there... MENACINGLY! *GET OUT OF THERE, SPONGEBOB!*"
Autocorrect squiggly is just clippy unbent
I remember Clippy from my childhood in the 2000s and I was illiterate so I couldn't read what he was saying but I remember finding him extremely friendly. Back in the days I was using Windows XP for paint and pinball. When I started learning French by the 3rd grade, I became familiar with the Latin alphabet and could understand what Clippy offered. I wasn't so keen on Word yet because I was still figuring out the keyboard letters and tried my best to write simple sentences and insert images from the internet without formatting tho. Later on, both my parents got a laptop each and that desktop was spare. Mom had Windows XP whereas dad had Windows 7. I do not remember Clippy to be anywhere on dad's computer however. I couldn't figure out why things were different. I don't know exactly when Windows Vista was released, but uncle had it and I don't remember Clippy showing up there either. Thanks for the video. This revived over 15 years of memories.
Ohhhh, virtual assistants use female voices because that report showed people feel safer around computers with female voices...
@internet_userr tbh all virtual assistants, regardless of their voice, they make me feel uncomfortable
@@internet_userr At the time I had sounds turned off because the speaker was disconnected. I never heard Clippy say anything, but saw.
@@AmenProletar He didn’t speak
I rememebr during IT class I would just play around with Clippy in word. It was so much fun as a kid😂
the best childhood
I honestly miss Clippy
Same.
Me too. I actually liked him.
Also just realized I am 1000th like but who cares
Same
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finally, a W comprehensive guide on Clippy's history, ironically feeling warm and user-friendly
I remember when I was a kid and I made PowerPoints about silly stuff on Windows XP, I absolutely adored Clippy. I'd spend hours making my PowerPoints and just playing with his animations. My favorite animation of his is the one where he has headphones. ^^
Personally I'd be ecstatic if they bring him back. It would be like finding a beloved toy from your childhood again.
If they brink back Clippy, I hope they bring back the other assistants as well. Links was my personal favorite
I loved links, I was a huge cat person and still am so a funny little cat assistant was great.
The greatest assistant of all time
Same. I love Links!
I always thought Clippy was adorable. Even if he was annoying. He never deserved as much hate as he got. Not that I don't find it hilarious when people get mad at him. But I sincerely hope he becomes the face of a super powerful AI. That would be the best
I quite liked the office assistants as a child. It blew my little mind back then when discovering that you could change clippy. He got annoying after a while. Then I changed it to the cat and that was much more appreciated, even if the bubble messages would not become less. But this kitty cat was so sweet - it went to sleep after a while and it purred and even greeted you with a meow xD
I loved the "animation!" feature, even if it was soooo distracting...You just wanted to see what the assistant is doing next.
I remember loving Clippy when I was a 6 year old in 2001. I obviously wasn't typing up papers but I used to love getting on Word 2000 just to see him come up. I was super sad when I booted up Word 2007 at school and realized he was gone. On top of the program being entirely different from Word 2000.
i used to love making powerpoints as a kid and i absolutely ADORED the different virtual assistants. clippy was so fun and cute and i loved having him around, he was so cool to me as a kid
I was a young kid during XP's heyday, and I remember being quite amused by Clippy and the other avatars. I think my favourite was the dog assistant.
Looking back, they weren't helpful at all, but they did entertain my young self, so...at least that was something, right?
I'm glad you made a video about me, what I have to say is that I've always done my best to help 😊
I've always liked Clippy. During the Clippy era I liked to use Word to copy/paste random images I found into documents, look at the fonts that turned letters into images and symbols and write nonsense, because I had yet to learn how to write. At that age it's probably a surprise to nobody that a shapeshifting cartoon character doing funny things would be appealing. During my school years when we started using the school's computers between the 00s and 10s I remember we would get caught up in playing with Clippy and the other characters you could pick and not instantly get started on what we were actually supposed to do.
And because it was boring, people used BonziBuddy later released in 1999. But had a problem: see it wasn’t just a fun assistant, it would steal your personal information plus it was a malware and an adware. This made a lot of damage so it was sued many times in early 2000’s so it had to be shut down in 2004.
Actually, there's a Nation Squid video that explains it. 😅
@@luciano_shines oh
@@luciano_shines Not everyone has watched it!
@@marmarasgalatas Don't feel bad.
@@matildalitsey143 no i just realized
clippy was absolutely useless to me, but i loved playing around with him and all the other assistants. they had funny animations, and i believe they could tell jokes aswell, greatly entertaining
I remember back in the early 2000s where me and my two older brothers were huddled around the computer in our bedroom. Kids being kids, we downloaded everything we possibly could on the internet, so our XP install was terribly slow. One day, explorer crashed and nothing was on the desktop besides the background - Bliss. We spammed every key on the keyboard hoping that would fix the issue, but only Clippy popped out of nowhere and scared us shitless!
I sincerely miss when computers had personality and design; I miss when computers didn't lean into minimalism so much.
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As a child who had very few friends, I ADORED Clippy. Even before I could read, I would get on MS Word and try to get him to appear so I could hang out with him. I thought he was my friend! We were buddies! :)
I remember the day I first saw Clippy as a Microsoft word assistant on my parents' computer. I didn't use him as an assistant, I just liked the idea of your sort of friend just sitting with you while you work. Then my computer broke and I never saw it again because then I had a newer version of Word installed where it was removed. When I found out that most people hated it, I was very surprised, because I really liked the way your virtual assistant interacted with you and did some cool stuff. Now I understand why the idea failed. It was a good idea for children, but he only annoyed adults with his unexpected appearance and useless questions. If Clippy were some kind of add-on for kids to make their time on the computer more fun, then I think it would have been successfull.
Clippy was definitely ahead of its time. Imagine if they brought it back with advanced AI capabilities! That would be interesting!
exactly!!
I actually liked Clippy, but I can agree with others that his ability to assist users was kinda limited. With AI though, he could be more useful.
I loved Links as a kid (the cat) and enjoyed having someone keeping me company while I did my homework. I missed him so much I actually downloaded these things called shimejis - basically characters that live on your desktop and throw your windows around. (They always had viruses though).
I would love to see a video on the history of shimejis
i remember shimejis!!! they'd slow down the device really badly but they were a lot of fun
"No Lady, I Don't Want Your Drugs" -NationSquid 3:06
I had clippy when I was a young child. I don't remember ever being actually helped, but I remember him turning into a bicycle?
I remember Clippy. The biggest issue was that it was annoying, a hinderance, & it asked the most asinine questions/gave the most useless hints/tips. All basic stuff anyone using a computer already knows, or stuff that is completely irrelevant. & it was in your face covering up your work, it wasn't just a little toolbar/icon off to the side, nope, they had to put it jumping out in your face every 5 seconds. SMH.
It wasn't that Clippy was annoying. It was that it was useless. It would offer generic advice that we already knew.
Clippy was like the FAQ on a product. It didn't actually answer the question you were asking. It would spout off a laundry list of solutions that never addressed the real problem.
FAQs are generally useless, and other sites tend to parrot them without actually know a damn thing about the subject.
It's ridiculous that you have to seek out other people who are not of the company to get the answers you need.
I remember when I was VERY little (I was born in 94 so I must've been like, three or four) that I REALLY liked Clippy lol. My Dad would sometimes let me play around on his computer, and I would make little scenes for Clippy. Houses and stuff (I don't know if I was doing that in Paint or Office though, it was so long ago... was Clippy in paint? I have no idea honestly). And then drag him around like he was walking in it. I couldn't read yet so he wasn't annoying, I guess I still have a small soft spot for the old paperclip lol
maybe you did it in powerpoint? I don't think paint ever had him.
I never had any use for Clippy's "assistance" but I enjoyed having him in the corner of the screen. It was like having a little companion to sit with me and occassionally entertain me with his little animations while I was writing whatever boring school paper I had to write. Even better was when I was in fifth grade, when my teacher showed me that other characters existed. Being a cat lover, I immediately fell in love with Links and always wanted that cute little kitty up in the corner of my document.
I got my first computer when I was 7, in 2006. It was an old computer running windows 95 and Clippy felt so futuristic to me lol. It was my first time using a computer and I thought he was cute.
It didn't take long for my dad to buy a new one with Vista, get internet access in our house (this is not in the US, btw. Things were different) and just like that Clippy was gone for me. I wish he made a return as an advanced AI tool
Over here in Poland, Clippy was mostly called "That F*cking Paperclip" :D
I like clippy's design.
I can't help but notice and appreciate how you don't assume a watcher has seen all your other videos. Whenever a topic is relevant on a recurring basis, you still take the time to explain what you're talking about every time, without going into excessive detail if it's not the main focus. It's great for a newcomer who might be learning something new. For a returning viewer, it doesn't feel repetitive, it just creates a sense of perspective that highlights how connected everything is. It works really well when you're talking about the history of technology and the Internet and how it affects and reflects culture. It's also nice whenever you do end up taking a closer look at something you've mentioned before, like Microsoft Bob here. Really nice work.
With the addition of clippy's possible return, I'm afraid Microsoft would have already been beaten to the chase that hasn't happened yet
I'm from the future. coming back here, I can tell you there is a guy on his Linux laptop trying to create an assistant that can execute system commands from your own computer (with your permission), look at your files (with permission), look up on the internet (with curl) and even have system information at hand ($SHELL, $USER, $LANG, $HOME, ect)
it will be an open source program that anybody can install and will even utilize David Shapiro's RAVEN. I heard he is even working on setting up servers so that it can seamlessly port memories from device to device.
Worst AI assistant? No, that honor belongs to Bonzi Buddy. At least Clippy wasn't full of malware.
Clippy was that annoying friend but now you're happy he's coming back.
Clippy was the best friend I ever had.
Come back, Clippy! All is forgiven!
Clippy haunts me in my sleep.
I'm still missing Clippy. I actually liked him.
My sister and I LOVED playing around with Clippy and the other AI tools as kids! Mostly for the animations. So, he holds a fond place in my heart, even if he was useless.
The coolest thing Clippy ever did was stand his ground pretty well against the Dark Lord.
If you know, you know.
Uhhhh... Progressbar 95?
@@gingerbreadpie11037 No
@@gameman250 then....uhhh?
Who tf felt sexually harassed by a cartoon paperclip? 😂
Those eyes are saucy idk
Okay, I complain about the "AI" buzzword a lot with Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion obviously not being AI but this takes the cake. Calling Clippit/Clippy an "AI" is just nuts lmao.
i only saw him like one time while working on a powerpoint at school. i don't remember him doing anything he was just There. whimsical little fella
We have a very cool Open Source AI project where people can create their own "Wingman" which is basically a customizable AI assistant. Guess what, Clippy was one of the first ones one of our community members created and is now part of the core Wingmen we rollout to people. So if you want to check out "modern day real AI Clippy", you might want to check it out!
I loved playing with clippy as a kid. I feel like I remember you could change him into other characters too. He was my friend. People hate him too much.
“No lady, I don’t want your dr-gs” 💀
i LOVE Clippy and that yellow dog, they were my distraction during computer classes in elementary school
I enjoyed Clippy and the other assistants. I liked watching them animate.
0:03 “George Harrison Sandwich” - by that do you mean a sandwich named after George Harrison, pictures of George Harrison visiting Sandwich, pictures of George Harrison making a sandwich, or pictures of George Harrison eating a sandwich? Any way you meant it, the folder name sounds interesting.
Yes
Hey, don't dis my boy clippy like that
I never understood the hate against Clippy, I remember it being around when I was using computers at the university writing papers and the like. It didn't really bother me, although it wasn't really helpful, I have fond memories of it coming with (useless) advices , those cool small animations , especially when it kind of broke the 4th wall by poking on the screen. As I was writing and going through dry academic papers , I welcomed those small and funny interruptions, and I always thought the animations were well done.
It's probably nostalgia talking, but I would activate the Clippy functionality on Office on a hearthbeat today if it came back, useful or not.
I remember Clippy! I was introduced to "him" in my law firm job in the 90s. I found him helpful sometimes but did have to have IT show me how to hide him at times.
Loved seeing you on White Oak!
Great video!
Yeah, those of us who are old enough to have actually had to do a job of work with Clippy interrupting don't remember him as being cute or friendly!
I want to see a celebrity deathmatch of Clippy vs Bonzi Buddy
As a kid I really liked Clippy, mainly because of the quirky animations. In hindsight, the assistant probably wasn't that useful, but I don't think that it was as terrible as it's made out to be either.
it makes no sense how those study group women though a PAPER CLIP was staring at them flirtatiously. Dramatic much
“Oh, hey, I see you’re writing a suicide note. Would you like some help with that? 😁”
The spammer in the live chat is like that one car that always speeds past red lights, except for the fact that the human-spam bot wouldn't get punished the same way that a speeding car would.
Imagine working with Clippy and he always showed up. It use to make you want to throw Clippy and the computer out the window.
That Thumbnail made Me think this was a Video about a Horror Game where You are hunted by Clippy and getting caught by Him caused a Jumpscare.
I didint exist when clippy existed
Cant wait for clippy to be revealed as the next smash bros fighter
Same man
I can’t wait to get into smash 💀
If you cant disable clippy, you need clippy.
Thanks Clippy for inspiring Bonzi Buddy
watching this after the one about Bob, and i'm a bit disappointed you didn't mention that the designer was a children's book illustrator. Really felt like i was looking at a page from some ancient children's book when i saw the clips of Bob.
I loved Clippy. And you could always just turn him off 🤷♀️
I love you, you love me.
Let's all bring back 'ol clippy.
With a signature campaign, I'll be knocking on your door.
He'll be loved just like before.
what?? how the hell can a paper clip be "masculine"?
Clippy.. are you flirting with me??
This video should've been made a long time ago.
I used to switch it to the origami cat option in the late 90s -- I still miss it!
I have nostalgia for clippy for sure. My childhood was the 80s and I begged my mom for a personal computer saying she could forgo all other gifts if I got one. Clipy was totally my friend in my earliest learning processes on the computer. I outgrew him quickly, but I actually sometimes found his image bouncing in the corner comforting.
Speaking of: I'm glad you started showing your face, because your videos before used to come across "..too mechanical ".
You're killing it, bruv.
I think I tried to use clippy once and ... can't say it helped. From then on I kept hiding it.
People thought Clippy was to masculine?
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He’s a paperclip????????
My wife at the time and I bought our very first computer in 1998. It was an e-machine from staples and I remember cursing at clippy.
I love the design and vibe of clippy it feels nostalgic Even though I was not in the 90s
I somehow have nostalgia for Clippy even though he was already removed from Word when I was born; I was in elementary school until late 2018 and they didn't have new computers yet, so they were using the same ones they got in the early 2000s. We had beige square IBM computers with floppy drives and Windows XP, and when we had computer class, they taught us how to use Clippy, even though he was long dead!
I never had the fortune to use it, but I asked my father if he ever used it and he said "He was an adorable little fellow, I loved messing with him" I really hope they bring him back!
Clippy brings his vicitms to The Hall of Tortured Souls.
I like how microsoft office 2007 they got rid of all of the characters and just made it a help page that doesnt work any more xd
I always used the dog instead, if I used any of the assistants at all. ... my username probably gives away as to why XD
EDIT: "Clippy could become an extension of chatgpt--" Aaaaaand that's 100 times worse than just having a paper clip annoying you while you work, no thank you!! (:
Windows users: we are not kids, we are not idiots
Also Windows users: help how do I disable Clippy?
Can’t wait for Clippy to return!
I remember when I was 3 or maybe even 2, my grandma was going to show me a picture on her computer and then clippy showed up…
We ❤ Clippy
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