Sketcher is a real-time networked multi-user painting applet written for Java 5 or newer. In plain English, it's a program that runs in your web browser and allows you to draw on a shared canvas and write to people at the same time.
Sketcher was one of the earliest "natural media" raster graphics software applications. It was released in the early 1990s by Fractal Design Software for the Apple Macintosh.