Nostalgia. Many of us spend hours making drawings as a kid, since it was basically the only thing to do next to mine sweeper. Just like we all miss clippy, useless as he was.

I was the only kid in high school allowed to use a laptop in class, because my motor system doesn't really "do" writing but it does typing well enough. I'd spend entire lectures drawing gigantic mazes in MS Paint instead of making notes. To be fair, I would have been drawing mazes if I had to use pen and paper anyway.

But even then, MS Paint was pretty much a copy of 1984's MacPaint, which pioneered that type of program.

Nostalgia doesn't cite sources. I've never used MacPaint. I've used MS Paint, though, pretty extensively, all through the 2000s.

this version plays well with modern image formats :)