User:Tancre/2/hackpact/Clippy

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Clippy (Clippit)

Historical Background

Microsoft Office

Office Assistant

Clippy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhjNvSSuLM

Existing Projects

Clippy JS

https://www.smore.com/clippy-js

https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js

Clippy prank

http://rjlpranks.com/pranks/clippy/

Clippy on iOS

https://github.com/hbang/WritingALetter

Clippy on macOS

Unpacking the code

> I wanted to work on the original code but I couldn't find it. Microsoft never published it.

> I tried to work on Clippy prank, which is based on Windows, but after using 7zip to extract the .exe I got stuck. The extracted files have strange extensions (ADATA, ASPAK, IDATA ...) or no extension at all. When I tried to open them I noticed the code is encoded and I've no idea on how to work with it. (I searched a bit and it seems like I should get some .msi file from the .exe).

> The only accessible project I can work on is ClippyJS. It is the most famous project available online and can be interesting to play with it and make a website.