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Explain Shockwave Flash?

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Mar 15, 2026533 views

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Shockwave and Flash are two different things. Still, I'm wondering why is Flash called Shockwave Flash at many places?

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Originally, Macromedia made the Shockwave plugin for publishing Director content on the web. A smaller company called FutureWave developed an animation program called FutureSplash, also with a web plugin, which had a smaller resource footprint than …

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Explain Shockwave Flash?

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