Microsoft Office 97 came with a virtual assistant named Clippy, an animated paper clip. He could be helpful if you had no idea what you were doing, but as you mastered the program, Clippy became more annoying by the day....
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/09/The-Guy-Who-Came-Up-With-Clippy/A big portion of the Netherlands is below sea level, and the Dutch are masters at controlling water levels to maintain that land. The city of Utrecht is shot through with dams, canals, and locks as part of that water con...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/09/People-Around-the-World-are-Ringing-a-Doorbell-for-Fish-in-the-Netherlands/Modern medicine has made things so much easier for us, with vaccines, antibiotics, chemotherapy, and anesthesia, among other modern miracles. But surgery itself is pretty old. What was that like before we had knockout dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/09/What-Surgery-Was-Like-Before-Anesthesia/
