There is a live Request for Comments on this profoundly important sociopolitical question here:
#MSoffice #windows #geekHistory #Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Office_Assistant#Request_for_comment_on_whether_to_use_the_name_'Clippit'_or_'Clippy'

"Journey of the Sorcerer" feels like a window onto a hidden history, or maybe two histories.

I mean, it's not the Eagles that anyone expects. And it's not what most folks would remember as a globally significant science-fiction theme. Yet it's both of those things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP5eb848Kpc

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Today in #GEEKHISTORY 12/25/1940: Ralphie receives his Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle, almost shoots eye out

Computer Languages in the order I learned (to some extent) them-after 42 years the order may be wrong: BASIC (Sinclair ZX80 & ZX81), dbase II (Osborne 1), Apple Logo (][), Assembler (VICMON Vic 20), dBase IV/FoxPro, Pascal, COBOL, Assembler (IBM something), RPG II/III, C (Kernighan & Ritchie), long break, more to life than computers? Postscript, HTML/CSS (are these languages?), Bash, Perl, SQL, PHP (3 just out), JS. First experience with a computer: Fortran on punch cards. #geekHistory