one of the most CREATIVE companies there ever was... swallowed up whole by ADOBE
https://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html in April 2005
changing overnight ALOT to do with website design.. the web has literally never been the same since that buyout/merger.... adobe + macromedia together were responsible for some of my most creative work + fondest memories using macos9.... macromedia was a visionary company! that made everything BETTER that it touched.. i dont know where u could possibly get the idea that it ruined everything that it touched
http://web.archive.org/web/20050331092944/http://macromedia.com/Flash MX 2004
Dreamweaver MX 2004
Fireworks MX 2004
FreeHand MX
macromedia was always held in high regard untill being PUBLICLY CRITICIZED by steve jobs who only did so because he had an AGENDA with his own soon-to-be-released hardware products (ipad, iphone etc) + battery life performance etc.. rather hten fixing the battery he fixed it by discrediting macromedia flash and literally changing the world by publicly downtalking macromedia rather then making a iphone or ipad that could run flash without running down the battery..
macromedia obviously did have a history of buying up alot of other software programs...
and integrating them into their own suite of applications, but they created a really great set of creative tools + i very much fondly remember working with fireworks + flash + freehand on a daily basis back in the late 1990s + early 2000s period. i very much miss this pre-facebook version of the internet-world! alot of things changed in 2005
i miss pre-studio MX macromedia from 2000-2003 the most
http://web.archive.org/web/20020720042321/http://www.macromedia.com/http://web.archive.org/web/20010711153213/http://www.macromedia.com/http://web.archive.org/web/20000301182851/http://macromedia.com/http://web.archive.org/web/19991109124715/http://www.macromedia.com/index_gif.htmlRIP
back when the web was amazingly creative. and easily browsable on a g4
its a SHAME to remember macromedia as a company that ruined anything, rather then seeing the MAGIC + CREATIVITY that their tools unleashed on the world for a small brilliant time period that happened by chance to coincide simultaneously with macos9 os itself