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October 22, 2006
Early MAX
Early MAX: Before Adobe MAX, before Macromedia MAX, before DevCon, there was UCON, the Macromedia User Conference. Darrel Plant describes some of the early ones here. I've been told that the first one, organized by Devorah Canter, was held in a house in Chicago. MacroMind later moved to San Francisco and held a conference at the Hilton Hotel in Portsmouth Square... I hung around outside that event, not having the $1100 ticket price or even a computer, although I had purchased Director 2.0 and was reading the manuals. The t-shirts Darrel shows here tell of realtime 3D engines, the first efforts at a richer web, then the beginning of DHTML. Today there's a lot more of us, and we have more tools at our disposal -- serverside development, machines always talking together, and connected computers you can put in your pocket. Adobe adds the video world, and business document systems, and the entire ecology around visual design. Instead of being a few early adopters united around a single packaged software box, we're now a very large group of smart, optimistic people, with a great range of technical skills and priorities. Good times ahead.
Posted by JohnDowdell at October 22, 2006 7:00 AM
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