It's not quite that bad! The last version of Office released with Clippy was in May 2003! So you would have been born, if only just.
My old daughter loved the cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI Not everybody updates Office on the day the new version is released, so they continue living for a long time.
Yeah I was a tiny little two year old:) Definitely wasn't coding yet hahaha