History of Macromedia Flash
As you may or may not know, this year is Macromedia’s 10th birthday. In celebration, i did a quick search to see what information i could find on the history of Macromedia and Flash. Here is what i found:
- Macromedia Survives a Decade by Reinventing itself [via JD on MX]
- The History of Flash (written by the creator of Flash)
- The History of Flash (slightly older version)
- Macromedia Timeline
- Flash Tutorial for Beginners (has brief history outline)
- The development of Flash (in Dutch, has screenshots of all versions) [thanks waldo]
- The Flash History (flashmagazine) [thanks jarle]
- Web Archives (futurewave) | (macromedia)
I also thought that Flash developers might be interesting in seeing some pictures of Macromedia headquarters, the Flash Team offices, and some of the members of the Flash Team.
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Macromedia Headquarters at 600 Townsend
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606 Townsend :: Macromedia Flash team’s office (along with other teams) It used to be a parking garage.
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Lounge area in offices
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Troy Evans, Flash Player Product Manager
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Notice pocketpcflash.net on the screen.
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Cubicles (interesting, heh?)
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more cubes
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Kitchen and merry-go-round (gift from Apple)
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kitchen
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Picture from side of kitchen. You can see the putting green.
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Putting green.
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Mike Williams, one of the Flash product managers.
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Jeremy Clark, Flash Product Manager. (he built one of the easter egg games).
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Matt Wobensmith, Flash Authoring QA
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John Dowdell
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Part of the Flash Team’s QA lab.
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Flash logo, so the team doesn’t forget where their office is.