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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

I remember Macromedia.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh shockwave games. The Internet peaked at the turn off the millennium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Speak for yourself. I, for one, do not miss needing to suffer through intro animations before the real site would load, "designed for Internet Explorer 4", or the endless ad popups of the era.

Points for nostalgia though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Fuck... me... I forgot how terrible that was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I always thought shockwave was part of flash? I never understood the difference

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Adobe jumbled them up after acquiring Macromedia, which itself had previously acquired both (shockwave from Macromind, flash from Futurewave).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I seem to remember a competitor, I think it was called 3DO or something?