Kriti Garg, a 24-year-old artist and photographer based in New Delhi, recalls, “I first used MS Paint in second grade in my Computer Science class. It’s no surprise that this was a canvas upon which memes still used today, like Rage Face and Dolan Duck, were created too. Gone were the bitmapped checkerboard patterns of Windows Paint – replaced with hues produced by mixing 256 values each of red, green, and blue.”įor many urban Indians growing up in the ’90s, Microsoft Paintbrush was the go-to for basic cut-copy-paste jobs, adding texts, creating funny doodles, testing their handwriting using a mouse, creating portraits of their favourite superhero. The largest change, however, was that the program now worked with color. The shape tools fell from 12 to 8, and the bezier curve tool now required two control points (making ‘S’ curves possible). The ‘brush’ tool remained, the ‘pencil’ disappeared, the ‘paint can’ became a ‘paint roller’. And so it was that Microsoft Paintbrush became virtually every urban Indian child’s first digital painting canvas.Īlso read: Planet M - brand that changed how Indians experienced music in new millenniumĭavison writes on the changes from the original: “The tool palette moved to the left edge of the screen, and the color palette stretched across the bottom. Then, before the turn of the millennium, internet, email services and messenger services had also taken root, and Indian children, were, for the first time, truly growing up with computers. By the mid-90s, economic reforms had been ushered in and households across India had slowly started to acquire basic desktops.
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