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HERE’S THE THING ABOUT CLIPPY, THE REAL SECRET:

No, not that his name is really “clippit”, everyone knows that. no one cares. he’s clippy.

No the real secret is that there’s two of him. There isn’t one clippy, there’s two versions of clippy, and everyone seems to remember the second one. I even see people drawing weird combinations of the two because they got confused in screenshots. 

BEHOLD, THE TWO CLIPPYS: 

This is Clippy/Clippet #1. Introdcued with Office ‘97, he’s traditionally animated, using the same 2D Microsoft Actor technology designed for the ill-fated Microsoft Bob project. He lives in a little box. He cannot escape the box. Only has eyebrows when he wants. 

BUT THEN, OFFICE 2000 HAPPENS

CLIPPY 2.0! This one is Microsoft Agent-based. He’s 3D animated (pre-rendered 3D, actually, not done in real-time), and has NO BOX. He’s built on the same technology as Bonzi Buddy. He wiggles his eyebrows a lot, and doesn’t warp into things as much as Clippy 1.0. He’s got a paper to stand on. 

PS: yeah: His real name is Clippit:

I can hear the “tink” of this image