{"id":1549,"date":"2021-07-23T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:05:52","slug":"fondly-remembering-clippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/fondly-remembering-clippy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fondly (?) Remembering Clippy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an unexpected thing to say, but I feel a certain amount of warm nostalgia for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Office_Assistant\">Clippy<\/a>, one of the first virtual assistants, as found in Microsoft Office circa the 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin-bottom:15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/clippy.jpg\" style=\"max-width:50%;\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Oh sure I hated him at the time. He was basically worse than useless. I recall that my only interaction was to annoyingly dismiss Clippy&#8217;s popup window. But as they say, time is the healer and we must forgive our enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The recent news is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/14\/22577468\/microsoft-office-clippy-emoji-tweet-likes\">Microsoft may supplant paperclip emojis with Clippy<\/a>. That&#8217;s seems like harmless fun, so long as it doesn&#8217;t affect final output (e.g. PDF). Perhaps Nisus Writer should replace the bicep emoji with classic Nisus Man. I see a certain resemblance&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin-bottom:15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicep-nisus-man.png\" style=\"max-width:90%;\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an unexpected thing to say, but I feel a certain amount of warm nostalgia for Clippy, one of the first virtual assistants, as found in Microsoft Office circa the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}