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No one knows. I know HOW it was invented, though.

In the late 1800s, there were art companies like Dynamic Graphics that sold books of "art ideas"--pages and pages of little pictures that were supposed to help your staff artists come up with pictures of their own to print in your newspaper or whatever you were making. They were very popular, but the publishers of the books found out the buyers were just cutting the pictures out and using them in the newspaper, not drawing new art based on the canned stuff. So...the publishers of these books renamed them "clip art" and sold the idea that your artist could do important drawings if he had this book of little pictures to put in the paper.

When computers that could do quality graphics were invented, these clip art books became clip art discs, first floppies, then CDs and DVDs.

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