The Paperclip That Arrived Twenty Years Too Early

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In the collective memory of personal computing, the conversation about Microsoft almost always circles back to a punchline. When Clippit guessed wrong, he did not fail discreetly. When I was a child sitting in front of Word 97, Clippit felt like a glimpse of the future.

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