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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 47 points 1 year 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 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The horror!

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year 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 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Far from it my dude. =)

+1

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ken27238@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Kid Pix on the Mac

[–] snowbell@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Kaboom-boom!

[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] clearleaf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I still do this

[–] torafugu@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm only 18 and I remember.

[–] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] subarctictundra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Windows XP?

[–] Stoler@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] LurkyMcLurkface@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Holy fuck, this is eerily accurate!

[–] Cokeser@feddit.de 6 points 1 year 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 1 points 1 year ago

Send the pics to her when she's 30

[–] sean_lemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

Sometimes the teacher would let us print it out 😁

[–] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This was pretty much every computer class.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year 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.

For me, it was Kid Pix and Claris Works.

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CodeSalat@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Digital art at its simplest

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Deluxe Paint 4 on the Amiga for the win

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

'Twas a work of art!

[–] Jocker@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

And now i think i was Picasso

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wingdings was how I rolled.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

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

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