FutureWave Software

FutureWave Software, Inc. was a software development company based in San Diego, California, co-founded by Charlie Jackson and Jonathan Gay on January 22, 1993. The company is best known for developing FutureSplash Animator, a vector graphics web animation tool released in 1995. When Macromedia acquired FutureWave in December 1996, it renamed the product Macromedia Flash, which went on to become the dominant platform for interactive web content throughout the late 1990s and 2000s. After Macromedia's own acquisition by Adobe Systems in 2005, Flash was rebranded as Adobe Flash.