On that subject, don't make fun of people who paste screenshots into Word docs and email them. On Windows 95, that was a really good idea! MS Word was one of t

On that subject, don't make fun of people who paste screenshots into Word docs and email them. On Windows 95, that was a really good idea! MS Word was one of the few ubiquitous tools that would compress images, and certainly one of the few that people could be counted on to know. MS Paint didn't support PNG until Win98, and even then wouldn't do it by default. If you didn't go via Word, chances are you'd be emailing a 900kB BMP at a time when people used 28.8k modems to access Hotmail accounts with 2MB caps.