for me, it started back when i was experimenting with the internet. i wanted to make html so the first product i ran across was dreamweaver. i was amazed at what you can do with DHTML (which is what dreamweaver creates). i was like, “wow! i can make this image move around”. back then i didn’t know about flash. when i visited macromedia’s site to check on an update i found flash. i was curious so i went to a site with flash. boy was i amazed. i downloaded the trial instead. 30 days later, i was fishing for $300-400 to buy it since i used up every single day on that trial. instead of buying it, my friend found this guy selling a CD on ebay with all the full macromedia stuff for $10. as spontaneous as he was, he bought it, then starting my furthered flash days.
then version 4 came around…then 5. bought 4, paid for upgrade to 5.
flasher forever!