Goodbye Flash and thanks for all the animated fish

I was there at the beginning of Flash and yet, when Flash dies in 2020, I won't miss it.

When I stumbled on the technology at the 1995 Internet World Conference in San Jose, it was called "Future Splash" and made by a tiny company called Futurewave Software, Inc.

Future Splash was designed for creating web-based animations that did not use GIFs, then the prevailing internet animation and web page building block technology.

Back then, we needed Future Splash, which became Flash after Adobe purchased the technology. In the early days of the internet, there were only so many ways to add movement and video to the World Wide Web. Read more...