> Released in 1995 by Macromind, Shockwave brought interactive content and games to the web in a way that was never seen before. In 2005, Adobe purchased Macromind and all of their interactive web products such as Flash and Shockwave continued under the Adobe name. Not Macromedia – “MacroMind"?! I had never even heard the name MacroMind until I looked it up just now, to learn it existed until its 1992 merger with Aut…
Probably because Director was originally created under a different name, VideoWorks, which WAS released by MacroMind before they eventually became Macromedia.