I am not quite that old, but I learned digital media creation in the Macromedia Suite… Dreamweaver, Flash… before Adobe bought them out.
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
codapine@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I cut my hobby web design teeth on Macromedia Fireworks. Adobe’s output sucks in comparison to mm.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I, too, was forged in the fires of Macromedia.
Before the dark times. Before the empire.
Snowyday@startrek.website 4 days ago
Fun fact: Macromedia didn’t create Flash. They bought out another company
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 4 days ago
9point6@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Fun fact, I read that GRRM still writes using a DOS copy of WordPerfect
Zorque@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe he just hasn’t written anything since it was the standard.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Daaaaaamn
biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Back in my day, and to this day, Microsoft offers such huge discounts in academia on licensing, and recruit so many students from university, I never saw anything but MS.
I’m glad we are at least in an age that there’s alternative to Microsoft in the free and open source space for individuals even when school goes down their path.
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had MS Works for DOS at home as a ternager. Let’s just say I don’t miss the way spell check worked before the red squiggly line was invented.
jdf038@mander.xyz 3 days ago
I too was once a ternager 😉
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Word perfect in 1990 was better than Word is today.
philnc@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
WordPerfect 5. On DOS. Over NetWare. But XyWrite was the one true wordprocessor.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Formatting in word-perfect was so easy. You could turn on view all formatting and it made sense. Bold on here, bold off here .
This was long before Word came along and formatting became some invisible apply-object thing
reddig33@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Needs more toolbar buttons.
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Man, reminds me of how we used AlphaSmart machines, which were like horrible little physical word processors. upload.wikimedia.org/…/Alphasmart_pro.jpg
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Look at you Mr. Fancy Pants using Windows.
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Salvo@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I had Corel WordPerfect for Linux.
You could modify the SGML codes to create documents that were compatible with all other versions of WordPerfect and MS Word, but he features that were supported in the document format, but not in the software.
For instance, I could change use more than the 16 colours that the Word for Windows UI allowed you to use, even though the displayed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor and printed correctly.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Oh god, SGML. That’s a memory I had successfully repressed.
satanmat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Hell yeah. I ran Corel Linux their last gasp at a pivot….
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Before Correl bought WordPerfect and made it usable!
nucleative@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think this was the version right before WYSIWIG support was added. So you could still use fonts, and change font sizes but on screen it would show a strange notation but not the actual font. Complex layouts were tough 😅
Gobo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I was about to say. Wp5 on dos 5.0 with the blue screen.