When Microsoft introduced Clip Art in 1993 as part of Word 6.0, it included just 82 images. In later years, Microsoft shifted its Clip Art portfolio online, eventually hosting more than 100,000 ...

If you can’t remember, you’re not alone: Microsoft’s Office team today announced it is doing away with Clip Art’s online image library and replacing it with Bing Image Search.

But the golden age of clip art has come to an end, for Microsoft products at least: the company announced today that it is replacing the function with a custom Bi IE 11 is not supported.

Microsoft will no longer offer Clip Art. As an alternative, the company is pointing users to use Bing image search instead. Which is fine, because that’s what everyone was doing anyway.

Microsoft is killing off Clip Art in favor of Bing Images. Farewell, ‘90s illustrations. Farewell, ‘90s illustrations. by Tom Warren. Source Microsoft Office blog. Dec 1, 2014, 8:15 PM UTC ...

Theage.com says over the years, Clip Art grew into an expansive library, from "only 82 illustrations built into Word 6.0 in 1996 ... to more than 100,000 static and moving images housed online.".

Before the days of search engines, placing images into Word documents went like this: Insert > Picture > Clip Art. Those days are long gone. Now, you can just as easily find an image of a light ...

Before the days of search engines, placing images into Word documents went like this: Insert > Picture > Clip Art. Those days are long gone. Now, you can just as easily find an image of a light ...

Numerous alternatives to Clip Art exist across the web, including clipart.com and Open Clip Art. Microsoft recommends using Bing search, which is built in to Microsoft Office, instead.

Microsoft has closed its Clip Art library, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, fuzzy cartoons used in desktop publishing since the 90s.

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.