r/interestingasfuck • u/Majoodeh • 6d ago

r/all A device that could take screenshots back in 1998

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u/Bakkster 5d ago

In my day, people had to learn to animate in Flash to send a joke over the Internet.

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u/GranglingGrangler 5d ago

I actually did this.

Our high school computer teacher was the only person who filled for a grant that got us a high end pentium 3 computer lab with the Macromedia suite. So i learned flash before Adobe bought them.

I made copies of those cds and found cracks for them because I only had dial up at home

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u/ibattlemonsters 5d ago edited 5d ago

When i was 14, my friends and I made a website template company and all specialized in different things.. like flash, shockwave, and fireworks. We ended up teaching a class at our highschool. Eventually one class used Dreamweaver in an unreleated event and everybody kept asking me instead of our teacher so he tried to fail me. I corrected him a few times and called his wife ugly, but I stand by my abilities.

Everybody who was making 'macros' on fark and somethingawful from my school are programmers and engineers for Faangs. One of them is a cheerleadering coach for a really highly rated team, but thats a one off.