• SippyCup@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    We called him clippy at the time. His official name didn’t mean that’s what we called him. “Fuck off Clippy” is something my father and I said to each other until he died. It was a shorthand we ended up using for just about any bloatware we needed to get rid of to get a computer to work how we wanted.

    • Ariselas@piefed.ca
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      1 hour ago

      I guess it’s kinda like blowing into the NES cartridge when it won’t load. Everyone did it, but no one knows how it started.