• Naho_Zako@piefed.zip
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    2 months ago

    Not old enough to actually havd any experience with clippy (I think the earliest Windows UI I ever touched was XP, but that was made before i was born lol), but at least Clippy was local and didn’t steal your data right? Even if he was useless he could be turned off and didn’t stalk you.

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      Yes, Clippy existed at a time where your computer wasn’t expected to be connected to the internet 24/7.

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          Nah. In the 1990s personal data wasn’t valuable to Microsoft because they weren’t selling advertising at the time.

          Clippy was there only to sell more copies of office.