Hey! It looks like you're writing a letter!

[Juice Box]

GO the FVCK away you freaking paperclip!

 

[FoBoT]

try microsoft BoB sometime

 

[SynthDude2001]

Calm down...the paperclip can't hurt you...

 

[DangerAardvark]

Hey, it looks like you're writing a suicide note. Need some assistance?

 

[Amused]

That's easily disabled.

 

[TexDotCom]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Hey, it looks like you're writing a suicide note. Need some assistance?

I used to have that graphic as the wallpaper image on my work computer. Very appropriate. Your post brought back some fond, and not-so-fond, memories.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Hey, it looks like you're writing a suicide note. Need some assistance?

lol

Goodbye cruel world........

 

[tweakmm]

Word: Write letters n' sh!t yo.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
try microsoft BoB sometime

Band of Brothers?

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: FoBoT
try microsoft BoB sometime

Band of Brothers?

Eww.... BoB. That was just.... ewww!

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: FoBoT
try microsoft BoB sometime

Band of Brothers?

no, microsoft bob was a software package that made it "easy" to do stuff for computer illiterate people, like the paperclip on steriods, except that this was in the 80's

http://toastytech.com/guis/bob2.html

http://www.telecommander.com/pics/links...icrosoft_Bob_1_0/Microsoft_Bob_1_0.htm

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/ch02s08.html

The theory behind Bob was to replace the specialized metaphors of the PARC-style desktop with a pseudo-spatial virtual reality in which programs and documents were represented by familiar, everyday objects. The crude graphics of the home screen are an instant clue to what went wrong; in practice, Bob was a cartoonish, cloying interface populated by ?Personal Guides? whose saccharine pseudo-friendliness failed to mask extreme mechanical stupidity.

Microsoft Bob became the worst flop in Microsoft's history, a debacle so embarrassing that the company destroyed all copies of the software it could get its hands on and attempted to erase the entire episode from the public record. The only ?Bob? novelty to survive its demise was none other than Clippy, the painfully distracting ?assistant? in Microsoft Word. Despite repeated later paeans to ?innovation?, Microsoft has never since attempted any advance in GUI design that went deeper than improved eye candy. Once again, the next steps forward came out of the Unix world.

see? clippy came from Bob

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: FoBoT
try microsoft BoB sometime

Band of Brothers?

no, microsoft bob was a software package that made it "easy" to do stuff for computer illiterate people, like the paperclip on steriods, except that this was in the 80's

http://toastytech.com/guis/bob2.html

http://www.telecommander.com/pics/links...icrosoft_Bob_1_0/Microsoft_Bob_1_0.htm

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/ch02s08.html

The theory behind Bob was to replace the specialized metaphors of the PARC-style desktop with a pseudo-spatial virtual reality in which programs and documents were represented by familiar, everyday objects. The crude graphics of the home screen are an instant clue to what went wrong; in practice, Bob was a cartoonish, cloying interface populated by ?Personal Guides? whose saccharine pseudo-friendliness failed to mask extreme mechanical stupidity.

Microsoft Bob became the worst flop in Microsoft's history, a debacle so embarrassing that the company destroyed all copies of the software it could get its hands on and attempted to erase the entire episode from the public record. The only ?Bob? novelty to survive its demise was none other than Clippy, the painfully distracting ?assistant? in Microsoft Word. Despite repeated later paeans to ?innovation?, Microsoft has never since attempted any advance in GUI design that went deeper than improved eye candy. Once again, the next steps forward came out of the Unix world.

see? clippy came from Bob

I know, I was just kidding around. Everytime I see BOB or BoB I think Band of Brothers right away.

 

[TexDotCom]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
Werd: Write letters n' sh!t yo.

Fixed, and linked to the referenced pic for your viewing pleasure:

Microsoft Werd

 

[Ntar]

dont shove the paperclip up your ass and all will be fine

 

[essasin]

are you ok?

 

[Ntar]

Originally posted by: essasin
are you ok?

he is not

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

Originally posted by: Juice Box
GO the FVCK away you freaking paperclip!

heh

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
try microsoft BoB sometime

I still use Microsoft BoB for most of my computer needs. I dual-boot it with OS/2 Warp.

 

[Modeps]

I would like some assistance with my letter please. I've never written one before.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: FoBoT
try microsoft BoB sometime

I still use Microsoft BoB for most of my computer needs. I dual-boot it with OS/2 Warp.

Warp? U fecking n00b, I'm still using Microsoft Executive and XTree Gold.

 

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: ChooChooChooseMe

Originally posted by: Juice Box
GO the FVCK away you freaking paperclip!

heh

thats gold.

 

[aircooled]

you can turn that off....

 

[Mucho]

Just let the paperclip walk you through the steps to disable it.