The research below was inspired by first trying to find a date of one of the Macromedia Conferences way back when. The event I was searching for was, UCON 1997″. It was a career and probably a life-changing event for me and probably a lot more folks out there.
A remember what seemed to be a large clan of MacroMind Director users that read every page of the Lingo Programmer’s Journal and nearly every post on Direct-L. We worked with a lingo dictionary or bible on one side and the Director manual open on the other side of the keyboard. Many of us also read just about everything that came out in print about, “multimedia”.
The web still has that same level of excitement and inspiration. Like my introduction to Smart Sketch when I knew something just changed. I had no idea the tool would become FutureSplash and no way of knowing what that meant but you could feel the web becoming animated and interactive. By mastering FutureSplash I had just learned to sustain myself using multimedia on the web.
Here’s some of the resources I came across.
- We Band of Director Programmers – Darrel Plant (change agent)
http://www.darrelplant.com/blog_item.php?ItemRef=567 - Early MAX – John Dowdell (change agent)
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/10/early_max.html
- Happy Birthday Flash
The history of Flash splash pages
The history of Flash from the Flash Team
The history of Flash from the horse’s mouth…AKA John Gay founder of FutureSplash - MSN goes online with FutureSplash Animator (it’s gonna be big!)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1996_Dec_10/ai_18929971 - Grandmasters of Flash: An Interview with the Creators of Flash
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