Their first attempt at this was an annoying animated paperclip named Clippit, fondly known as "Clippy" to millions of MS Office users. See https://en.wikipedia.

Their first attempt at this was an annoying animated paperclip named Clippit, fondly known as "Clippy" to millions of MS Office users. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant.