Mike Downey explains that Flash began with John Gay and Robert Tatsumi’s SmartSketch idea for natural drawing on early pen computers. Customer feedback turned it into animation, the Internet created a need for lightweight vector graphics and Macromedia quickly expanded the technology.
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