Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

Re:Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th by mortenjorck on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @02:45PM (#19257661)

> Released in 1995 by Macromind, Shockwave brought interactive content and games to the web in a way that was never seen before. In 2005, Adobe purchased Macromind and all of their interactive web products such as Flash and Shockwave continued under the Adobe name.

Not Macromedia – “MacroMind"?!

I had never even heard the name MacroMind until I looked it up just now, to learn it existed until its 1992 merger with Authorware, when it became the vastly better-known Macromedia. How on earth did the writer of this article accidentally use the name of Macromedia's obscure predecessor?

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Re:Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th by tomysshadow on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:45PM (#19267246)

Probably because Director was originally created under a different name, VideoWorks, which WAS released by MacroMind before they eventually became Macromedia.

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Re:Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th by godzillabrennus on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:03PM (#19258731)

I’m surprised they didn’t just state “Macromind, co-founded in part by Marc Canter”.

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