I had just joined Macromedia in 1996,
and we were trying to figure out what to do about the internet.
And the company was in dire straights at the time.
We were a CD-ROM authoring company,
and the CD-ROM business was going away.
One of the technologies I remember seeing was Flash.
At the time, it was called FutureSplash.
So this is where Flash got its start.
This is smart sketch running on the EU-pin computer,
which was the first product that FutureWave did.
So our vision for this product was to
make drawing on the computer
as easy as drawing on paper.