Below, the life of clip art—as told, obviously, through clip art. The history of clip art is in many ways the history of the World Wide Web itself. openclipart.org ...

In each of these projects, I used clip art, the stock imagery that usually came bundled with software or on a dodgy CD-ROM you’d get at Borders called something like “50,000 Best Clip Art ...

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.