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[–] 203 points 1 year ago (6 children)

And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I once built a website preloader that was so large that I made a pre-preloader for it. Good times indeed.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A flash preloader was my first real tech job! As I recall, they stiffed my last paycheck and went under later.

    But it was incredibly fun and I made connections that steered my career to a new direction for the next decade.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    That's what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then.... destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That was part of the macromedia suite wasn’t it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Were they talking about Dreamweaver or Flash?

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    The one i never used.

    I made my personal homepage with Dreamweaver and got my first job with it.

    Also the first job: after 3 days of us using Dreamweaver to finalize the website, the PM rushes in and forbids Dreamweaver use, because it was garbling the parts with java.

    I never even worked with HTML before, "raw" in a text editor lol.

    I'm thankful for this first experience. It made me buckle up and catch up in the hotel, at night.

    That was around 1997...

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