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== History ==FutureSplash Animator, developed by young Jonathan Gay, was the first version of Flash. He created the program in 1995 and tried to entice Adobe. Adobe was unimpressed and passed on the software at that time. FutureSplash animator was first offered to the general public in 1996. By 1997 Macromedia had acquired the program From Gay and the program was renamed Flash. It was even known as Shockwave Flash for a period before a better distinction was made clear. In 2005 Adobe bought out Macromedia, which now put Flash into their hands.== Shockwave vs Flash ==Both browser apps are the property of Adobe. The terms Shockwave and Flash are sometimes used interchangeably, or even as a phrase "shockwave flash." Although the differences are confusing, or even seemingly subtle to many, they are two different apps.Shockwave, as a definitive plugin, was released before the Flash plugin. In 1995 while Flash was still known by another name, Shockwave was being used as a way to play back multimedia content, animation and small programs in a Web page. Shockwave is more powerful than Flash. Shockwave includes a full 3D playback environment that uses 3D software and hardware, which is why Shockwave is used for a lot of 3D games on the Web. Shockwave can also incorporate Flash content inside Shockwave applications.Macromedia adapted Flash from Future Splash Animator, a vector art animation program. Macromedia adapted Flash to utilize less bandwidth at the time since it was intended for use on Internet dial up connections. Since then the small Flash footprint has been "stamped out" since Flash today is bloatware full of patches, too many little used features, and copyright protection schemes.Flash is still considered to be less bandwidth intensive than Shockwave. Flash is more universal. More than 90 percent of Web users have the Flash plug-in installed, while a little less than 60 percent have the Shockwave plug-in. However, confusion is perpetuated by the SWF file format (filename.swf) or Shockwave Flash file format. This is the extension for Flash files for playback using the Adobe Flash Player plugin. Because adobe was originally known as Shockwave Flash, the file extension was an acronym for that name. Mime type: application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-shockwave-flash2-preview, application/futuresplash, image/vnd.rn-realflash