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August 17, 2006

Macromedia acquires Futurewave

Macromedia acquires Futurewave: Circa 1997... this WIRED news item was probably on many "Flash Anniversary" links last week, but I got it from Anil Dash. It's sorta funny: "Macromedia breathed new life into a largely overlooked Web technology on Monday when the company announced its acquisition of FutureWave Software for an undisclosed sum. Despite a high-profile foray with the Simpsons Web site for the Microsoft Network, FutureSplash Animator has not exactly become a household name among Web surfers. Enter Macromedia.... As part of Macromedia, FutureSplash will be renamed Flash. Flash, available now for US$249, is a vector-based graphics plug-in that allows Web developers to build images into their pages that can scale up and down in size. If a user wants to zoom in on a small object within a picture or map, he or she can click on the image and get an enlarged view without any degradation of the image." Wow, you can make things bigger without getting blurry, imagine the possibilities.... ;-)

Posted by JohnDowdell at August 17, 2006 02:09 PM

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... but it's Bud Colligan, not Bud Collagen, or else we might have ended up calling it "Macromedia Flesh" instead.... ;-)

Posted by: John Dowdell at August 17, 2006 02:14 PM

I got Flash 3 from a friend who was 'in the business' along with Dreamweaver 2 while I was trying to make the transition from 16 years of high volume bartending to self taught web developer (I'm thinking it was early 1998). The first time I ever opened Flash I had no idea of what to do or even what it was used for. I played with it for about a week and realized I was hooked when I had a dream about 'programming' Flash and woke up thinking if I could imagine a programming language in my head, there was no reason I couldn't learn one while I was awake. I've been a fan ever since.

Posted by: Brandon Ellis at August 17, 2006 07:02 PM