Comment by munchler
7 days ago
Clippy the Office Assistant. Similar idea to Bob, but more irritating.
Also, The Microsoft Network. This was a competitor to AOL that came out just as the WWW was exploding. It gave us the "MSN" abbreviation that we still see today, but otherwise disappeared without a trace.
Clippy came from Bob. The tech was called Microsoft Agent.
Ah, interesting. I didn't know that.
https://youtu.be/5DqJwmzG6Fk?si=5oUEH0YiwZFCaYO0
Well, almost without a trace. Unfortunately?
I always wonder was MSN ever actually a thing or did Microsoft pull it / replace it before it reached the market? I know plenty of people who used AOL or CompuServe, but never met anyone who used the original MSN.
You mean the full internet experience in one window thing like the aol browser? I’m pretty sure I used to use it, light blue thing and hotmail a more seemless integration?
My grandpa has MSN as an ISP and would dial in using a fully featured, very blue windowed program that had everything Internet in it. I remember thinking it was pretty cool.
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I think you might be right that it was pulled before it was available to the general public. I never saw it in the wild.