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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 49 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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 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

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The horror!

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 24 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.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 22 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@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Far from it my dude. =)

+1

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 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@lemmy.world 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@lemmy.world 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.

[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ken27238@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

Kid Pix on the Mac

[–] snowbell@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Kaboom-boom!

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Stoler@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] sean_lemmy@lemmy.world 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 😁

[–] torafugu@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm only 18 and I remember.

[–] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] subarctictundra@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] torafugu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yup. XP was legendary.

[–] LurkyMcLurkface@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Holy fuck, this is eerily accurate!

[–] Cokeser@feddit.de 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@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Send the pics to her when she's 30

[–] StewartGilligan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This was pretty much every computer class.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 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.

[–] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 3 points 2 years ago

For me, it was Kid Pix and Claris Works.

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 3 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.

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Digital art at its simplest

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Deluxe Paint 4 on the Amiga for the win

[–] Stoler@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Paranoid_pizza@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

'Twas a work of art!

[–] CodeSalat@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Wingdings was how I rolled.

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

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 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".