A good video from Linus Boman about clip art, most (in)famous from Microsoft Office, and specifically PowerPoint of the 1990s–2000s:

Turns out clip art is a lot older than I expected, and… it also never fully went away. On top of that, Boman covers a lot of aspects – from quality and perception, through the “user interface” of clip art, to how the means of conversion and reproduction changed it forever. I also loved the little “sidebars” in the video.

Even if you don’t care about clip art per se, a lot of the threads in the video will be relevant to things like shadcn, Inter, Google Fonts, Canva, The Noun Project, the Claude aesthetic, and so on.

Also relevant: Internet Archive’s MS Clipart Search.