I do remember

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

Then, that older cousin teaches you about "CTRL + Z", which you think you also had to press the + key for it to work
Or you made the black line white.....
The horror!

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

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

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!

Far from it my dude. =)

+1

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

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

I just liked to spam the dynamite tool (I think it was?) whichever one put the funny explosion effect on the screen.
- 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.
My dude I haven't heard of kidpix in like 14years the nostalgia's real

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

Kid Pix on the Mac

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

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

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

Sometimes the teacher would let us print it out 😁

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.

I still do this

I'm only 18 and I remember.

On the school computers this was one of the only fun things we could do.
Windows XP?
- Yup. XP was legendary.

Holy fuck, this is eerily accurate!

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...

Send the pics to her when she's 30

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

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.

This was pretty much every computer class.

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

And now i think i was Picasso

For me, it was Kid Pix and Claris Works.

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

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

'Twas a work of art!

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.

Deluxe Paint 4 on the Amiga for the win

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.