Illustration: via PC Mag
While you younger folks may not have had this experience, some of us do remember using MS Paint quite a bit — especially when there was no internet and we spent hours just doodling and trying to create works of art. Microsoft’s MS Paint was truly awful, and yet people enjoyed using it to pass the time. It was either that or the classic “Space Cadet” pinball game.
But now Microsoft has announced that they are most likely going to kill MS Paint forever. And while you can’t blame them since most people these days use Photoshop and other way better programs, folks on Twitter gathered to say their goodbyes.
Check it out below, folks.
Here’s some landscape doodles I did in MS Paint for practice. I love that program :c good night, sweet prince #RIPpaint #MSpaint pic.twitter.com/vRVGB51FvC
— Valprine (@valprine) July 24, 2017
R.I.P. My childhood with Microsoft Paint 1998-2017. :'(. #MSpaint pic.twitter.com/cTpoWHwxFS
— Kayla Rae (@KaylaColgan) July 24, 2017
It’s a sad day. I remember spending hours in school doing this on Microsoft Paint #MSPaint pic.twitter.com/AnQu9qVAw5
— Daniel (@DanielBruce_8) July 24, 2017
RIP MS Paint. RIP our childhoods pic.twitter.com/UpNYEDe4cA
— Ramsha (@Economistaken) July 24, 2017
Microsoft is probably going to kill MS Paint and people are sad https://t.co/e6GJfTaM8o pic.twitter.com/gRWgE7KDko
— Fortune (@FortuneMagazine) July 24, 2017
All the drawings. All the memories.
Much nostalgia.#MSPaint #Windows #Microsoft pic.twitter.com/UNSBY6mLXi— Beebom (@beebomco) July 24, 2017
without MS Paint, this wouldn’t have existed pic.twitter.com/yiBHdMiMi4
— Andrew Otis Weiss (@ThatWeissGuy) July 24, 2017
I remember an old commercial on nick that was a tutorial for drawing Timmy Turner. I tried to apply the steps to MS Paint. pic.twitter.com/sfYRJ4rPQ1
— bumbruh (@bumbruh) July 14, 2017
the WWE logo looks like it was made in MS paint pic.twitter.com/sofNQwehjI
— James Lamon (@LamesJamon) July 24, 2017
My tribute for the end of MS Paint (1984-2017) #Farewell #MSpaint pic.twitter.com/o4ybx6QhS9
— Val Pvt (@val0o) July 24, 2017
RIP MS Paint – here’s 20 hilariously awful album covers redone with the program https://t.co/Oz9n2nmbQN pic.twitter.com/evr4UmY9Oc
— NME (@NME) July 24, 2017
See you later, childhood.
h/t Distractify