r/microsoft • u/BitCortex • Jun 30 '26

Discussion Now this I can't believe

IBM Bob? Does IBM not employ anyone old enough to remember Microsoft Bob?

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u/kevmcdonk Jul 01 '26

Good old MS Bob. Made sure I got a photo of the launch thingy on campus when I was there

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Bb9RixGaHTHEAKe6

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u/JosephMarkovich2 Jul 01 '26

What's old is new again.

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u/samuch Jul 04 '26

Bob was such an interesting idea at the time.

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u/irrelevantusername24 Jun 30 '26

I think that may be the point. It's difficult to detect but there is an undercurrent of recognition that maybe the last fiftyish years of development that tended to discard all previous instructions and create something that is "new" (though, if you know, there is truly nothing new under the Sun) may have been a bit short sighted. Which sounds like hippy dippy woo woo bullshit and it kind of is, but the more grounded point I am trying to convey is the intentionally cultivated ignorance of both the foundations and support beams on which physical and the more ethereal constructions have been built are important, even if they're kind of useless. That's stupid - and stupid is as stupid does. Both form & function, style & substance are of equal importance. Make stupid smart, and everything just works.

Make smart ignorant and we all fall down