Macromedia

Let's see.

First it was Allaire, then it was Macromedia, and Adobe bought it.

And of course, I know all about this because I used PHP and all of these different things that turned into ColdFusion later on when they were being invented.

And then in the, well, like I said, my last web gig, we had a pre Adobe version of ColdFusion on our systems and Adobe decided, well, we're going to discontinue all SSL support for all pre Adobe versions.

But I remember...

It reminds me a lot of when Macromedia launched a platform called Dreamweaver, since it was picked up by the Adobe acquisitions and the roll-ups and completely forgotten.

But I don't know if you remember that.

Macromedia Dreamweaver.

So as a burgeoning young, I'm fascinated by the internet and web development and how to design web pages for businesses.

And we attacked it as, hey, you've got a brochure, you should have a website.

And then you have to be willing to sit in front of it and go through the motions until that thing is set up.

And I say that out loud.

Yeah.

I don't even, I had, do you remember Flash? Macromedia Flash? I

do.

Yes.

Interesting.

It got bought out, I want to say, by Macromedia or one of those companies.

And it had a quick death, sadly, after that.

So we were doing multimedia prototypes, simulating music, switching sources.

So I literally opened up burn flash book.

Fast forward about a year and a half later, I wound up being one of the best Flash guys in the world, talking with Macromedia and their development team on the latest upcoming version of Flash because I had positioned myself as an extreme developer.

user of the package.

I knew the package inside and out.

And there's a lot of work that goes on.

I was at Adobe and at Macromedia, and I know how long the, you know, how many times you go out to customers and, and go through exhaustive customer visits and all this, and do the user feedback and roll that into the product and all that.

And like, that's why GIMP sucks, is because-

[laughs]

But I think because they failed early, they were just too early in the market.

A lot of people assumed that it just couldn't be created, right? Because somebody else tried, especially one of the biggest players in the space, like Adobe and Macromedia, they failed.

So something must not be possible.

But in my mind, coming from that 3D background, it was just obvious, this needs to exist.