Interlude
The History of Flash
SOME OF YOU MAY RECALL the various incarnations of the Flash authoring tool over the past several years. Adobe Systems celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Flash in 2006, and this being the 13th year of Flash, I thought I’d take a trip down Flash memory lane. I assure you my age does qualify me to write about this topic, the proof being every time I find myself perpetually scrolling for the year I was born when filling out online registration forms.
1996: Known as FutureSplash, it was a bare-bone basic graphics editing tool with a simple timeline. Macromedia bought it and called it Flash 1.0
1997: Flash 2 was released with the addition of the Library and Symbols (just graphic behavior – the world actually rotated ...
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