[ineedasername]

Maybe you could incorporate it into a version of ms office from that era as well. You could even give it an anthropomorphised personality embodied by a skeuomorphic element of irl office supplies more common in that era, like a rubber band… or… a… paperclip…

[dialupdotnet]

Good idea :) Clippy is Office 97 and later though, so I'll need to make a version that fits in with the Windows 95/98 (or even Windows Me) look!

[juliangoldsmith]

MS Agent would be a perfect fit for that. It's basically Clippy as a Windows API. It even includes speech synthesis.

IIRC it ships with Windows 2000, but works on Windows 95 too.

[rapind]

Maybe Bob would be a good fit too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

[brtknr]

Bob looks an awful lot like Bill Gates.

[blackoil]

Melinda Gates was marketing manager, so maybe it was intentional.

[quickthrower2]

Full circle AI from paperclip to paperclip maximizer!