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[–] sorghum 63 points 3 days ago (3 children)

"Looks like you're writing a letter"

No I'm not, fuck off Clippy.

Turns out we just hadn't coined the term for computer intelligence being wrong as hallucinating yet.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know what, I think I remember that. You’re right. My bad

[–] sorghum 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Clippy still wins though because you could have him duck off.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

And he had bespoke animations that were kinda charming

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and you could change him into something else. links the cat was mine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I think the cat used to be all over XP.