* {{Defictionalization}}: The Vigor Assistant for the Platform/{{UNIX}} VI text editor is a clone of Clippy for Microsoft Word. Some random hacker made a [[http://vigor.sourceforge.net/ real Vigor Assistant]].
* OrphanedSeries: After running constantly from 1997, the comic went on hiatus at the end of November 2009. It started up again in August 2010, ran to mid-September, and went on an even briefer hiatus. Then there was one final burst of activity in November, and ever since the comic has sat abandoned. And then in a February 2022 forum post, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220226013838/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/read.cgi?id=20220224&tid=4056273 Iliad announced]] that the site would shut down at the end of the month.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Inevitable for a strip running so long. One that really stands out is Pitr equipping his PDA with a front-facing camera and it being treated like an absurd novelty, when a few years later it would be a basic feature.
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