In 1996, as part of its default installation, Microsoft Word 6.0 included 82 WMF clip-art files. (Compare that to today: Microsoft's Office product suite currently offers clip art as part of more ...

Culture April 4, 2023 Forget AI—We Need More Clip Art We used to scoff at it, but in an age of relentless commodification, it now seems like a democratizing force.

Microsoft first introduced Clip Art with the release of Word 6.0 in 1993. ... The inventory of Clip Art was very limited at first, with just 82 illustrations from which to choose.

Microsoft announced that it is eliminating clip art libraries from its suite of Office productivity software, and replacing it with Bing Image search. But the iconic illustrations may live on.

Back in the ‘90s, Clip Art took over Word and PowerPoint files thanks to the thousands of office workers and students who used the images as a way to "improve" their documents. These days there ...