With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. SWF file extension lives on.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. Both companies have changed their minds and since rebranded things, but the. It's kind of like how Microsoft was slapping the term ".NET" on everything in the 2000s.NET was a software framework for Windows application developers, but you also signed into your Hotmail account with an account named a ".NET passport" for some reason.
SWF originally stood for "Shockwave Flash." Macromedia rebranded many of its products with the name "Shockwave." For example, when Shockwave gained the ability to play MP3 files, Macromedia called that "Shockwave Audio." Macromedia later acquired FutureSplash, the company that owned Flash, and named the product "Flash" and the browser plugin "Shockwave Flash." "Shockwave" referred to any sort of in-browser multimedia experience. According to Adobe, this officially stands for "small web format."īut that's not what it originally meant, as a blog post from an Adobe employee spells out. Macromedia made things more complicated by confusing "Shockwave" and "Flash," even though they're separate pieces of software.
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