Macromedia Flash. Oh the days. And as you were recounting the above I suddenly saw Adobe in the Symantec/Computer Associates frame and realized Adobe has been

Macromedia Flash. Oh the days. And as you were recounting the above I suddenly saw Adobe in the Symantec/Computer Associates frame and realized Adobe has been almost as "successful" at those companies at absorbing and killing useful software for really no reason than those publishers competed with them, reducing overall value to the ecosystem. They sucked up Aldus killing Pagemaker, the aforementioned Macromedia and at least one other major publisher from the 90's that I feel I should remember but can't off the top of my head. Ugh. I'm still pissed at Symantec for what they did to PC Tools...