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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And then one if the lines wasn't painted all the way through and suddenly your whole image was Olive green

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Then, that older cousin teaches you about "CTRL + Z", which you think you also had to press the + key for it to work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Or you made the black line white.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The horror!

[–] assassinatedbyCIA 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this a universal experience from the time period. How did it start. Nobody told me to do this. I just did.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

It's the millennial equivalent of just being handed a box of crayons and being told to go nuts. It's baked into our DNA.

[–] TooLazyDidntName 4 points 2 years ago

I think I remember my computer class teacher saying something about it to my classmates and I.

[–] MrJameGumb 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!

[–] TehBamski 9 points 2 years ago

Far from it my dude. =)

+1

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Thteven 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I used to do this with Kid Pix on DOS back in the day. It was like paint but with sound effects lol.

[–] WindInTrees 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just liked to spam the dynamite tool (I think it was?) whichever one put the funny explosion effect on the screen.

[–] Thteven 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You could also freeze the explosion midway through for a cool swirly effect.

I liked to switch the language to Spanish and do some fire remixes with the alphabet tool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My dude I haven't heard of kidpix in like 14years the nostalgia's real

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Hold on, hold on hear me out.....

Kid Pix on the Mac

[–] Synthead 8 points 2 years ago

Wow, this is a moldy meme. Anyone go to the cool website?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Oh my, I'm not even 18 years old but i sooo did this lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm only 18 and I remember.

[–] SeeMinusMinus 3 points 2 years ago

On the school computers this was one of the only fun things we could do.

[–] subarctictundra 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yup. XP was legendary.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I liked dragging a selection box on the desktop and seeing how thin of a line I could turn it into. When it was perfect the line would dissapear and just have one pixel on the top and bottom. It was also fun to draw the smallest possible box around random things on the desktop wallpaper. I did that with the windows 7 stock wallpaper a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I still do this

[–] sean_lemmy 7 points 2 years ago

I remember in early middle school doing this incomputerlabe after finishing our work.

Sometimes the teacher would let us print it out 😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My 5 year old has done this a couple of times as well - I just has to adjust my semi-crazy mouse speed to her. :) I even saved the pics.

Another thing I distinctly remember is watching my das defragmentating the drive. I know that I at the same time hated it because it meant that we could not play games, but it was also strangely mesmerizing...

[–] subarctictundra 2 points 2 years ago

Send the pics to her when she's 30

[–] LurkyMcLurkface 6 points 2 years ago

Holy fuck, this is eerily accurate!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It was always Oregon Trail or Carmen San Diego for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I remember drawing the Death Star and lots of TIE Fighters. One version of paint had this line tool that produced the hyperspace lines effect. Nowadays, I dabble with pixel art in Aseprite.

[–] StewartGilligan 4 points 2 years ago

This was pretty much every computer class.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

For me, it was Kid Pix and Claris Works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And now i think i was Picasso

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Also, does anyone remember this game (it was included in Windows 95)?

[–] Ddhuud 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, but for some reason I would only use straight lines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Sell it. This looks like it's worth millions, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I still occasionally do this if I am on the phone with someone and need something to do with my hands that doesn't take much brain power or make any noise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Another thing I loved doing was doing a single color fill, then zipping the mouse around with the free-form selection and deleting the selection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

'Twas a work of art!

[–] Num10ck 2 points 2 years ago

Deluxe Paint 4 on the Amiga for the win

[–] PsychedSy 1 points 2 years ago

Wingdings was how I rolled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It was always Oregon Trail or Carmen San Diego for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Something fun to do is scribble like that and look for shapes or objects within the mess and erease it so whatever you saw is clear to see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Digital art at its simplest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'd draw a smiley face, select it, hold shift (iirc, might've been ctrl), and drag it around to create a "snake".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago