FutureSplash was a small software company whose first product, smart sketch, allowed the creation of vector graphics. In 1995, the company decided that they should add animation capabilities to their product. The only way to create such animations at this time was through the use of JavaScript, but this was quickly replaced with the debut of Netscape's plug-in architecture. The product was released as FutureSplash Animator in May of 1996. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Steam Locomotive 7646 as a vector, originally Windows Metafile (converted to GIF for display on Wikipedia page). ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Animation (plural: Animations) is the illusion of motion created by the consecutive display of images of static elements. ... JavaScript, in its modern form, is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... Netscape is the general name for a series of web browsers originally produced by Netscape Communications Corporation, but now developed by AOL. The original browser was once the dominant browser in terms of usage share, but it now has only a relatively small number of users. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

The technology was utilized on several big-name websites such as Microsoft's MSN and Disney's Disney Daily Blast. At this point, the company consisted of six people. As Disney also used Macromedia's Shockwave player, this provided a connection to Macromedia, which approached FutureSplash about working together. In December of 1996 Macromedia bought FutureSplash and FutureSplash Animator Became Macromedia Flash 1.0. The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company with over sixty thousand employees and a physical presence in over sixty countries as of 2005 along with worldwide annual sales in the tens of billions of dollars. ... MSN (or Microsoft Network) is an Internet service provider and web portal (initially meant to be a parallel net to the Internet) created by Microsoft on August 24, 1995, coinciding with the release of Windows 95. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) NYSE: DIS is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) is a graphics and web development software house. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Using Macromedia Flash 8 (bundled in Studio 8) in Windows XP. Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Macromedia Flash Player, written and distributed by Macromedia (recently targeted for acquisition by Adobe Systems), that utilizes vector and raster graphics, a native scripting language...

External links

• The History of Flash by Jonathan Gay