Macromedia Flash turns 10

Adobe Flash, the platform for presenting audio and video on the web, turned 10 this week. Over the last decade, the technology has grown-up from a simple outline tool to a near-ubiquitous rich media application used by designers, techies and web users world over. The format has become almost de-facto on multimedia sites now and is used for entertainment and decoration alike on the Internet.

Over the last decade, the expertise has grown from a simple outline tool to a near-ubiquitous rich media application used by sites like MySpace.com, YouTube and Google Video to stream millions of video and audio files a day.

Flash web pages, flash games, flash presentations, flash cubicle portal. According to a global survey, almost 98 percent of web users have the Flash player installed on their computers. Here's looking into the evolution of flash from a simple Web drawing and animation package to a complete multimedia development environment.