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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2019 23:22:02 EDT Nate Cull

   "Shockwave Flash"

   from the decade that brought you

   "JavaScript"

   It was the fashion, back then, to make new brand names by adding words onto other completely different names

   1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2019 23:23:24 EDT Nate Cull

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      and here I am 20 years later searching a Windows registry for 'shockwave' and getting a million unrelated hits

      1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2019 23:31:39 EDT Nate Cull

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         Also a million remembered support desk calls:

         "But I have Java. I ticked the box saying JavaScript enabled"

         "I understand your confusion, but you have Java SCRIPT. Completely different product from Java. Absolutely no connection b tween the two at all."

         "But that doesn't make any sense! Why would two unrelated products have the same name??"

         Because Web and because Sun and because Netscape and because moving fast and breaking things before that was even a meme.

      2. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2019 23:32:03 EDT Nate Cull

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         Also a million remembered support desk calls:

         "But I have Java. I ticked the box saying JavaScript enabled"

         "I understand your confusion, but you have Java SCRIPT. Completely different product from Java. Absolutely no connection between the two at all."

         "But that doesn't make any sense! Why would two unrelated products have the same name??"

         Because Web and because Sun and because Netscape and because moving fast and breaking things before that was even a meme.

      3. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2019 23:32:48 EDT Nate Cull

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         Also a million remembered support desk calls:

         "But I have Java. I ticked the box saying JavaScript enabled"

         "I understand your confusion, but you have Java SCRIPT. Completely different product from Java. Absolutely no connection between the two at all."

         "But that doesn't make any sense! Why would two unrelated products have the same name??"

         Because Web and because Sun and because Netscape and because moving fast and breaking things from two now-dead companies before that was even a meme.

   2. Thomas Sturm (tsturm@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 00:28:57 EDT Thomas Sturm

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      @natecull Shockwave Flash is from the same people that brought us Director with its fascinating language called Lingo.