Whatever Happened to Clippy?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ส.ค. 2018
- A long time ago I made a video on Clippy, the nearly universally hated paperclip from Microsoft Office. I figured now was a good time for an update.
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Clips used in order of appearance:
The Kid's Guide to the Internet (0:54) - • The Kids' Guide to the...
12 old mac ads (1:13) - • 12 Old mac ads
Computer Chronicles UNIX (1:32) - • Computer Chronicles - ...
Peedy the Parrot: Interactive Music Assistant (1:35) - kurlander.net/DJ/Videos/PeedyVideo.shtml
Bill Gates' CES '95 Keynote Featuring Peedy the Parrot (2:56) - kurlander.net/DJ/Videos/PeedyCES95Video.shtml
X-Tract Paperclip game (6:29) - • X-Tract Paperclip game
Microsoft Office XP Ad 1/3 - Clippy Gets Clipped (6:33) - • Microsoft Office XP Ad...
Delta Heavy - Ghost (7:42) - • Delta Heavy - Ghost (O...
Microsoft Office Assistant - SNL (7:45) - • Microsoft Office Assis...
Agent Animated Characters Showcase-Bonzi
(9:16) - • Agent Animated Charact...
Ribbon Hero 2-Clippy's Second Chance.wmv (9:41) - • How To Play And Learn ...
Siri vs Cortana Groundhog Day (Commercial) (9:47) - • Video
Microsoft Goes Back to the Future (10:05) - • Microsoft Goes Back to... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Clippy was something to stare at for 20 minutes because you lost your train of thought and it was 3am
Back in the good old days, when we didn't have TH-cam...
Dan Haiduc says the person using TH-cam
@@jessicahall5869 'when' as in back when they didn't have it. they have it now. when means the past. they didnt have it in the past (the time dan is referring to)
You are a true 98er, bro, you are a true
I was scared of clippy as a kid lol in my primary school around they had him
Gonna be honest, Cortana is more annoying than Clippy EVER was, and at least Clippy was cute. Cortana is a circle...
Cortana is one of the protagonists of the halo series and she is kinda funnny but her w10 and wphone versions are meh
@Gord Man yeh
Fr whenever cortana appears on my computer I'm like shut the fuck up
Luis Arturo Velásquez Menéndez and then she takes over the galaxy, forcefully. Bad omen much?
@@HannahFortalezza We, humans will destroy our planet sooner or later, so what you say is not bad omen, whatever that means
Clippy's best feature was "Do a trick" as a kid I remember opening word just for that
Me too
Omg same..
Kartikay Kaushik sameee
Same. I did that for Rover in XP search too
I did the exact same I would literally sit in the computer for ages just watching him animate I thought it was amazing.
I DIDN'T KNOW CLIPPY HAD AN ANIMATED SERIES AND WAS VOICED BY GILBERT GOTTFRIED THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE THING
is it still your fav?
Yeah, is it?
Yeah, is it?
@@Pixelcraftian :OO verified person :OO
@@lunesvet Y e a h , i s i t ?
I don't trust Alexa, Siri, or Cortana... I'd like to talk to Clippy please.
What about Google and Bixby?
AsellusPrimus, If these assistants didn't run for the government I'd get google. I also like Cortana.
@@felipekretschmera.5812 oh yes I liked bonzibuddy, but one day he got very mad, he called himself bonzikill and then tried to destroy my computer.
I trust siri but I also trust clippy rip clippy
“Hey looks like your writing a letter need an-“
Oblivion[2] WTF? what year did you install him?
I wish more people appreciated Clippy's little animations.
I wasted so much time when I was like 9 trying to get him to do the tick animation
Clippy honestly was my favourite interactive assistant when I used XP as a kid. Good times
I remember that i LOVED clippy as a kid. I was entertained to no end by the little animations, and i even got my mom to help me download the other characters.
Holy cow same! I never downloaded anybody new. I just loved seeing him bounce around and it made me giggle every time.
I remember clicking 'Animate' on each of the assistants about a million times each when I was a boy.
Did I mention I live in a swamp?
get outta my S W A M P .
*SOMEBODY ONCE TOL-*
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2002 Microsoft Corporation
@nitrrogen its r/ihadAstroke get it right
I remember my mom calling me asking me "What the Heck does this paperclip want?"
Animal Facts The more you look or think about that sentence the stranger it gets
well i didnt had windows Xp :( edit:i think its not in xp :|
That feeling when your game almost finished downloading and your mom calls someone
Animal Facts lol
I need to ruin the 420
I only encountered Clippy through elementary school computer classes, but I always thought he was kind of cute. It makes me sad to see people hate on him so much. He was just trying to help.
Me too. I think most of the hate comes from the fact that Microsoft forced him into our faces. If they were smart enough to give the option of silencing the help, but leaving him up to do his graphics or if you specifically asked for help. he would not have been so infuriating to people who knew what they were doing.
Keep in mind that at the time they introduced it to MS Office the vast majority of people using computers were much more tech savvy than they are today. Sure, you had folks that just bought their first computer and hadn't used MS-DOS, but the bulk of the people using computers had.
Even for them though, the Windows computers weren't very stable and you could be expected to have to spend a lot more time researching things as many didn't have the internet, just a rather large, now, electronic manual for hellp.
For us, it was patronizing, annoying and as the video pointed out, not very helpful. And ultimately, had the same issues that MS has had for years, help files and manuals that are incredibly lacking in terms of things that end users might need to do. The manuals at least as far as MS-DOS 5 had been rather large tomes of knowledge covering most things that one could possibly want, but after that they became unreliable and incomplete, and as such, no matter what they did with Clippy, it likely wouldn't ever have been very helpful as the manual wasn't a selling point for the users.
BEEELEEE same.
BEEELEEE Same, I personally didn’t mind it at all
Yes I agree with you
Clippy will never die as long as we remember him.
I have Clippy on Frontpage 2003 on my Windows 10 computer.
I have all assistants, also Bonzi and Genie
@@marcobianchi1605 wait clpp on windos 01 ext
Sorry my keybod glied
@@min2793 Yes.
@@marcobianchi1605 thanks
“What ever happened to Clippy?”
*The Chosen one defeated him*
XDDDD
damn you Alan becker XD
Alan Becker moment
Alan Becker vs Microsoft meme moment
I was a teenager when clippy graced our screens... and loved him.
I turned off his offer for help and just had him sit in the corner of my screen while i wrote assignments. It was like having a companion.
Now we have social media... arguably a companion that is more distracting to teenagers than clippy ever was.
Joel Reid we have to resort to putting a Clippy gif in the corner of our screens
"I'd sit alone and watch your light, my only friend through teenage nights. And everything I had to know I heard it on my Clippy assistant..." xD
Joel Reid I now want a pet Clippy
Joel Reid At least Clippy would try to offer help, and you could turn off his offers for assistance.
Hear hear, I never understood all the hate either. :-/
I remember you could stroke the dog and it would wag it's tail.
charlesxix lol xddddd I thonk u men pat llldldlddlld ermergherdee nu strokeeee day Sunday wrong!
You can pet the dog in Windows XP.
You can stroke my dog anytime
@@SpanishDuck r u ok?
LMFAO
to be fair, young me LOVED clippy lol
i remember disabling him a few times (or maybe my dad did that, i don't remember), and specifically going out of my way to dig through microsoft word settings so i could enable him again :') as you can imagine, i eventually grew out of him when i figured stuff out on my own, but screwing around in microsoft word with fonts and such was always just that much lonelier without clippy there, even if i wasn't using him haha I was fairly upset when he wasn't available on newer versions of windows
My dad had an old desktop crt and all that he gave me and I used to hop on word to see clippy do random things. It was so entertaining to me. I had him on in the background while I played club penguin and watched videos. Glad I still have the old unit. I even have the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and speakers.
I feel this. Like time flies things that was so normal those days we miss them
time for you to add clippy code
Let's get back...
Honestly, after watching Animator VS Animation again, I could totally see Clippy being a Smash Bros fighter, it’d be weird, sure, but using text as a weapon would be really cool.
Hi verified guy
yea
@wut Shut up
How to do that sub to yourself
You mean alan becker
My grandma...when we upgraded her PC from XP to 7 and put office 2007 on it, the first question she asked is “where is that paperclip”?
;-;
Lol
Ohh gramma. We miss clippy as you do.
Same with me!
:(
I'm surprised Clippy never appeared as a playable character in Killer Instinct. Every other Microsoft character did!!!
Bob & Clippy: Nuts 'N' Bolts II
Yeah, pretty disappointing I didn't get the call
Larry Bundy Jr That's a new DLC later on.
if it becomes dlc it would be memetastic
If you don’t read this in Larry’s voice you’re reading it wrong
9:58 “Cortana is just clippy done right” you sure bout that 🤨🤔
at least clippy didn't harvest my personal data
@Beckett H your comment is funny now that I think of it
its actually the other way around
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"It looks like you're trying to blow up the computer. Mind if I hug my kids?"
ARG my brain! Where's that from?!
@@gians.9880 The Simpsons.
@@IAmNotAFunguy Oh THANKS!
Sideshow Bob
As The Great Bard once said: "Looks like you are writing a letter, would you need help?". What a fleeting character he is.
There was a good cartoon of Clippy where it says "It looks like you are writing a suicide note - I can help with that!
2DTv, just came from that.
Bill Gates: I realize now I've created a monster.
Clippy: Hi, it looks like you're writing a suicide note.
*Ton of people standing behind clippy*
People: WOULD YOU LIKE SOME HELP?
*Oh my god*
Drawn Together, I remember that episode
+Mike Gaddas +Pipe2DevNull
There's a _Family Guy_ episode that makes a reference to the cartoon. The ending is different - and also hilarious - but I don't want to spoiler here.
@@guilhermesartorato93 I'll check it out.
I want a setting to make Cortana Clippy (With Gilbert Gottfried's voice)
@William Miller says the kid who pronouces worlds correctly.
i want to make cortana bonzi buddy
yes
We need a mod
@@Ieu6054 'death glare'
d o n t
I honestly loved Clippy from the very beginning. He always made me smile! :)
My elementary school had old computers, and they had clippy. My entire class was in a computer room writing essays, and we all remarked at how we hated the paper clip. That was in 2010. Our computers were really out dated
What grade were you in?
@@soulwolfx2291 the computers in my middle school still have clippy... They are pretty much fossils
@@FA-nn8vw Oof, and I thought my school's computers were crappy. They're macs from 2009! We got them in 2011, before then we had PCs with Windows XP..
@OhHeccItsJackie our computers are a few years of updates behind.
Same! In like around 2009-2013 our primary school still had windows xp they only got windows 7 in 2013 then windows 10 in 2017.
I liked clippy.
I liked the office characters, and yes I was proficient in Microsoft office then and I still am.
I mostly just liked it because of the small touches to it. Like a misspelling, or sentence fragment, or just the occasional tutorial. If you feel insulted by a piece of software then you have a inflated ego and are over sensitive to not understand it is talking about a broad audience..
Indeed. I think the real villain was Microsoft for forcing him in our face. If he was given the option to silence help and just sit their doing his little graphics until specifically asked, he would have been more endearing. I loved his animations, particularly his eyes going through paper outlines during spell check. Or his "foot" breaking the fourth wall by tapping on the glass.
undeadbobop same here I do miss them I miss the robot one
@@davidford3115 agree
I loved clippy because he always wanted to help me even tho i dont need help he was a wholesome little guy! Anoying, but wholesome.
I loved clippy. And very soon cartoon digital assistants are already making a comeback in the form of avatars in virtual worlds. I wouldn't be surprised if you'll see these kinds of characters become a mainstay.
I never hated clippy,20 years ago i was in second grade learning how to use Word and me and my class mates were LAUGHING OUR ASSES OFF AT THE ANIMATIONS :))
I thought I'm the only one who doesn't hate clippy at all
I remember when he'd curl up in a little spiral when you left him idle, and all us 6 year olds thought it was peak comedy.
same lol it was cute
"sure"
bill gates, 1995
Comment of the decade
What happened to him? A first grader turned him into a "lockpick"
I remember how on our school computers in the mid-2000s we had clippy and played around with him all the time when we were bored during computer lessons, or switched to other characters to see what animations they had. I remember often switching to the eaarth character.
The thing is, a lot of schools don't update software too much, we had Clippy on our computers into the 2010's.
MrHatoi We currently have Windows XP Computers in our school...
I know in high school, we were using XP or whatever came before that.
@@diggydiggyhole-fan I really miss XP. Maybe it's just because we had it during my early childhood years and it's nostalgic to me but I still love it.
almost all business and school Computers here in Finland have been updated to Windows 10 about a year ago….i remember that about 2-3 years ago my primary school had like Windows xp machines running Linux because that school couldnt afford new Computers. But thank god they got upraged.
My school still used windows 98 in the mid 2000s
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE WRITING A LETTER !
endofthelinejoel *loads gun* would you like me to help you with dat!
But I never did
He's living out his sunset years playing canasta, and winning.
Even tho I was born 2005 I still got my hands on old things and Im happy because of that. And my god the old WinXP
I remember Clippy vaguely but I don't remember hating it at all. It was just... there.
Clippy turned into Siri , Google voice etc... The founders of Siri are doing a real useful assistant. So clippy was ahead of its time, just annoying for users who knew their shit.
Don't forget Windows 10 Cortana, a much more direct descendant of clippy. Cortana even inherited Clippy's not very usefulness.
The newer assistants have a lot more in common with Bonzi Buddy, with all of the spying and recording of user actions they do.
@@Modern.Millennial Cortana just doesn't make a whole lot of sense on a device that may or may not have a microphone. Not to mention may or may not have a always connected internet connection like a phone.
I'm not going to go run to my laptop to open it up to ask Cortana a question, and my desktop that's always connected doesn't have a microphone. My laptop may or may not have a internet connection depending if I'm at home or somewhere else.
I don't even use Google assistant that much on my phone. The only reason I even used the assistant is through my Google home devices around the house. Other than that, I really don't care for personal assistants.
Clippy never gave me the right answer, even on easy questions. The animation was nice.
Cortana
I don't think I ever used the office assistant for anything besides randomly clicking on "animate"
True but having clippy do a trick a couple times during the 9-5 made the day a little more bearable.
Clippy didn't engage in data harvesting.
I always felt bad for clippy growing up knowing that people made fun of him. He's so cute!
That fan art of Clippy traumatised me to my very core, I am scared for life.
Just need something upbeat to erase that.
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Agree
I bet it's trollery. Don't worry.
I was a child when I first was introduced to computers. It was around the time of Windows XP/Vista, and Clippy taught me a lot, honestly. Thank u Kevan Attebury, and thank u the programmers behind Clippy (AND THE BOUNCY RED BALL TOO!)
omg.... the little robot.... i forgot about that little guy.... he was my favorite.....
Man, I remember making "cartoons" with characters in MASH (Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper)
Oh I loved Clippy! It was so cute just... sitting there and changing shapes. I was like 8 yo or something
Actually, Clippy (or Office Assistant) helped me found the Slide Master feature on Microsoft PowerPoint.
It really saves me a lot of time.
6:37 So *_THATS'S_* why clippy sounded like Digit from Cyberchase!
His name was Clippit in Office 97 then renamed Clippy in Windows XP.
I remember clippy! Back when laptops looks like a giant boxes
Which they actually were
@@dekadenze so
Now the computers did some diet and they are much thinner
There's a programmer somewhere 35 to 40 that has a clippy tattoo😂
Clippy tatt!!!! I must get one! Wait. Must get a job, first.
"Things better left unmentioned..."
*Oh god what*
I remember what could be the earliest meme ever - an image of Clippy saying "It looks like you are writing a suicide note - would you like help with that?"
Roses are red
Violets are blue
It looks like you are trying to write a letter
Would you like me to help you?
I'm trying to remember the letter to Tom (from Tom & Jerry), but I can't restore the third line.
Blood is red
My butthole's brown
Shut up
Navigates to settings, Disables.
Maybe when i was 8, i needed your help with grammar. But i quickly learned it and you just butted in at the worst possible times. The only thing i think was good about you was your spell check feature.
Violets are not even blue
Rose colors vary
Violets are violet
I think I’m being annoying
So imma just be quiet
Clippy was awesome
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Who would've predicted that social engagement would lead to things like Alexa, Siri and Cortana, and essentially, microphones all over your place? I wouldn't. But honestly? I used the red smiley-ball character back on Office 2k, put him on the side, so I had at least one face smiling at me, when we were writing an exam at school, where everyone was, well, not smiling. XD I don't exactly miss Clippy, but I believe he deserves a bit of honour. After all, someone just had to come up with social interaction, because otherwise, speech-assistents would possibly never have become a thing.
But now imagine... Clippy returning with an AI backend. Creepy...somehow...
Clippy: "What you did isn't very poggers."
inb4 "LGR What Ever Happened to Clippy?"
Simpsons did it!
0:38
Where did this idea come from?
And where did it go?
Where did you come from,
Cotton eye Joe?
Lol
Manuel Bonet
Where did this idea come from?
And where did it go?
Where did it come from,
Microsoft Joe?
Clippy came from heaven, went back to heaven, and soon we brought him back.
Clippy still lives on in all of your digital assistants today.
He's just living somewhere hiding on the web. He even came and killed Cortana on my PC!
DeanStuff did he “clip” her?
Let's just say that he used guns and it may have been a battle of metal vs a flat circle.
Dr- Dreamcast? is that u?
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7:47 I literally forgot about that cursed image and you had to remind me it existed. :(
why did i have to press the Time stamp WHY!
Oh no.... NOT THIS
at least the time is a 747
Oh there is way more than that, the fingered clippy
Windows 95 nopls
If Microsoft would have chosen to enable Clippy as a setting in the setup along the lines of "Do you want assistance in Windows"? it would probably be way less hated
How dare you, I love clippy, he helped me when I was younger
I had Office 2000 when I was a kid and I loved Clippy and the other characters. I don’t even think I did any actual work in the programs, I just loved to “Animate” them and play around. I think the Earth was my favorite one, actually.
Same. Earth was so magical
I like clippy tho. Id replace my phones assistant pic with clippy
I liked clippy, if only for the little animations. I mean what kid wouldn't play with things like that on school, since school is boring as all heck.
7:46 wtf
*CLIPPY RAN OFF WITH CORTANA AND THEY HAD A BABY ...*
the other Microsoft Office friends are pissed off as hell
I grew up with early Microsoft so as a kid, I found clippy fun and useful but that’s just me. Also, I want Gilbert Godfrey as my voice assistant! I need that in my life right now 😂
I forgot all about the characters to select from, this just opened up old memories.
Flippy what's my favorite! So many times I was sitting there at night typing something and feeling so alone and I just liked having him there looking at me wondering if I was going to do something or not LOL
Exactly that lol
When Clippy wants to be your friend, but you don't want him to be your friend
You want more
Elf, why did you use that clippy drawing
My thoughts exactly.
Orinami Smile whats wrong with it
TheRealVenomSnake its art
I loved that last clip. Good video man.
Despite being old enough to have experienced Clippy in his prime, the thing I most remember him for is the 4chan meme where his line is changed to "It looks like you're trying to kill yourself. Do you want some help?"
I like the Clippy Memes =D
7:45
i liked clippy. he was endearing. he only wanted to help, that was literally all he ever wanted and people hated him for it. also he was funny and cute! ^-^ i was so sad when my primary school upgraded our computers and he was suddenly gone :/ if i had a working computer and a legal copy of windows, you bet your ass i'd hack the sh!t outta Office to install a fan version of him if i had to xD but then again i was just a beginner at using computers when clippy was around. i was literally 6-8 years old when he was just chillin' there in the computer lab at school (year ones/first graders weren't allowed to use the computer lab)so i was about the age where turning into a bicicle for no reason was funny.
@Floppy 602 What are you trying to say? Are you our English teacher or something?
I have a VM having Windows 2000 (yay, I guess I can see Clippy!)
i remember the computer room at my old school had computers with Clippy and i still kinda miss that little guy.
I loved Clippy! He was more of a novelty but I remember spamming through his tips in Office 2002. I wasn't able to use any others besides him and the wizard guy though
You're showing a questionable image! Would you like some help?
Yes please. How do i triangulate the blur to be less blurry by 95%?
This is possibly the best video you ever made. Good job! :)
Ironically, characters "personally" talking to the user and walking him through everything is now coming back big time in the form of crappy "chat bots".
Please tell me the background music playing at 8:00
It’s so beautiful
I thought he got clipped off.
When Clippy wants to capitalise your word, but you are so lazy you want it uncapitalised
I like how the whole cli->tui->gui->sui "evolution" is just a "you can save yourself 5 minutes of reading documentation by spending 2 hours blindly figuring out the interface"(c) trope in action. Not only that, those "evolutions" actually make using actual software more slow, clunky and WAY more complex to use, so something that required like 5 pages of documentation to master now takes BOOKS worth of knowledge to master them.
Congrats 100k
I still get horrifying flashbacks of the times I had to deal with Clippy.
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7:45
I remember having them around much longer than that. They were a popular toy to play with while avoiding work in IT lessons.
I always immediately changed clippit to scribble, the cat.
If that isn't Christopher Lloyd at the end, he's a pretty good look-alike...by 120p standards.
7:45 Okay.. pregnant Clippy =D
Fanbase for everything exists.
just rule 34
whoever made that is ensuring their place in the darkest pits of hell
ok ive seen you in a linus tech tips video and you also put a smiley face at the end of ur comment (is it ur signature lol)
MaxtheRobot come on, there are worse things on the Internet and in r34
Do you guys remember when Clippy got pregnant?He probably resigned from his job and found another one that would get him more money for him and his children.
3:38 is the bowling TV when you get a strike
Cue me a few years ago, needing to borrow my mom’s laptop for school while mine was getting fixed. I didn’t realize what I was in for until one fateful day I loaded Word to work on an essay.
Only to realize she had installed her office’s copy of Windows 2000.
“It looks like you’re writing a letter. I can help you with that!”
I died inside. At least I gave my friend a laugh when I literally screamed upon it popping up.
Even today's "Personal AI-powered Assistants" are total trash if you ask me, it wasn't just clippy who never learned a thing about it's user, even the modern Google Assistant seems incapable of knowing anything about you except maybe a couple of things there and there.
Artificial intelligence is hopefully going to be better
Hey! How DARE you criticize something Crapple popularized, which is putting low effort into things but trick people into thinking it's revolutionary?!
I like how Clippy is an enemy in the game Progressbar95, it’s pretty funny.
Nice pfp
I can't forget how Clippy used to knock on the CRT monitor's screen with that special knock-knock-on-glass sound.