History of Flash

Originally acquired by Macromedia, Flash was introduced in 1996, and is presently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Flash is commonly applied to develop animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and much more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

The precursor to the Flash application was SmartSketch, a drawing application for pen computers running the PenPoint OS developed by Jonathan Gay, who began working on it in college and extended the idea for Silicon Beach Software and its successors

When PenPoint failed in the marketplace, SmartSketch was ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. With the Internet becoming additional popular, SmartSketch was re-released as FutureSplash, a vector-based web animation in competition with Macromedia Shockwave. In 1995, SmartSketch was further modified with frame-by-frame animation features and re-released as FutureSplash Animator on multiple platforms. The product was offered to Adobe and employed by Microsoft in its early work with the Internet (MSN). In 1996, FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia and released as Flash, contracting "Future" and "Splash".

That was inevitable - Flash is also utilized for creating Flash templates and Flash website layouts.

Should you want to express your fantasies, emotions in your site, then Flash Template is your option and there is nothing far better. Usually the Flash Template is rich in graphic elements and beautiful fonts.