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“Built in Research Triangle Park, browsed the early web, and asked for so little in return.”
“It taught the mouse where to go, then quietly closed its window.”
MacPaint was Apple's raster graphics editor, released alongside the original Macintosh on January 24, 1984, bundled with MacWrite for US$195. Written by Bill Atkinson of the original Macintosh team, it showed everyday consumers what a graphics-based system could do — the mouse, the clipboard, and QuickDraw, all working together. Pictures could be cut from MacPaint and pasted straight into MacWrite documents, a small
Development later moved to Claris, Apple's software subsidiary formed in 1987, and the last version was 2.0, released in 1988. With sales dwindling, Claris discontinued MacPaint in 1998. It left behind a simple idea that never died: that anyone could draw on a computer and paste it somewhere else.
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“Built in Research Triangle Park, browsed the early web, and asked for so little in return.”
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