DJ Saunders<p>This year marks the 40th anniversary of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PCPaintbrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PCPaintbrush</span></a>... a program that has left an important and lasting legacy that continues today with Microsoft Paint.</p><p>From humble beginnings to one of the most popular paint programs on the PC (although it was outsold by Mouse Systems&#39; PC Paint until the later part of the &#39;80s).</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/softwarehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>softwarehistory</span></a></p>