I was playing around with this great little app on Facebook called "Graffiti." It's basically a way to draw stuff and then "post" it to your friend's profile. Of course, I got sucked in pretty quickly as it's very similar to Paint (or Paintbrush, if you're of the old school type), just a little more limited.

Anyway, comparing Graffiti to Paint/Paintbrush reminded me of my favorite activity while playing on the family 386. (Which, I think, had 2 mb RAM and *maybe* a 30 mb hard drive. It was something about as powerful as one of today's cell phones.) I absolutely LOVED to draw pictures in Paintbrush. I think we have about five 1.44mb floppy disks full of our creations. Thinking back, I believe that was actually the only program that was geared toward kids on there… eventually Dad installed Math Blaster, Carmen Sandiego, and finally Oregon Trail. I remember hating Math Blaster because it exposed the fact I was not a math genius.

I'll try to see if I can find those old floppies at home and share my 7-year-old artistic talents with you all… because I know there are so many people actually reading this.