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[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

I remember Macromedia.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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

[–] z500@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

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