Macromedia Shockwave?? and my old web site

[Sergio44]

Hello Guys!

https://web.archive.org/web/19970301231548/http://www.sko.it:80/index.html

SKO HomePage this my home page published in July 1996....were we did implanted Macromedia Shockwave...Anyone can help me in getting that page back to live?..

I'm so happy to have found one of my initial job... (i'm just 74 years old guy..but still on line!!)

Tks so much

Sergio

[Preran]

Thank you for posting on this forum. Can you provide us with the exact nature of assistance that you require? I see that your site is live already from the link you shared (although I admit that it could do with a significant design overhaul.)

How would you like the experts here to help you? Remember that they can provide you with the required guidance. You will still have to get the job done yourself.

Thanks,

Preran

[Joseph Labrecque]

Note as well that Flash Player will sadly be going away (for web browsers) in the next year or two - though your old site seems to use Shockwave... which is entirely different and not related to Flash or Animate. Someone would have used Director to create Shockwave content.

[pziecina]

Browsers a blocking all plug-ins from 2020, the only reason that the blocking of flash is more widely known, is because there are many more users of flash than any other plug-in. Even the use of the pdf plug-in/extension is ending.

[ClayUUID]

pziecina  wrote

Browsers a blocking all plug-ins from 2020

They most certainly are not. Where did you hear this?

[pziecina]

It is on the Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE and Edge developers blog. The information is about a year old and was published shortly before the Adobe announcement.

I'm not going to go and find the articles for you, but ask in the Dw forum if you require conformation, or look up the Announcements in the pdf forum about 18 months ago.

[pziecina]

This link may help, scroll to the newer posts at the bottom -

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615738

[kdmemory]

Ciao Sergio

your question makes me curious. What is it that you want your old "page back to live"? I had a look and it seems to me it was on a kind of early web technology info/advice mission or even business? What's your motivation now to reactivate it?

However JosephLabrecque is right, this is an Animate Forum and your questions belongs more into a Director Forum (if that would still exist).

Although having said that, these things are historically all related. Animate CC is the successor of Flash Professional which in turn was in some ways the successor of Director. In 1996, the year you published your website, Macromedia Shockwave applications made with Macromedia Director were the new kids on the block of rich internet applications. From 1998 onwards it became gradually superseded by at first Macromedia Flash and then from 2006 onwards Adobe Flash.

The historical connection is also in the name Shockwave. You have Shockwave for Director and there is Shockwave for Flash (SWF).

In the beginning of Flash the code and algorithms for SWF were godfathered by Shockwave for Director.

This brings me back to my original question: What is it that you want your old "page back to live"?

As I understand, as a "just 74 years old guy" you still want to play the game. That's great! But you need to define for yourself what precisely it is you want to play. Do you just want to bring this old page back to life? Really!? Well, Shockwave for Director reached its end of life:

Adobe: "Sale of Adobe Director ... will stop on February 1, 2017.   We will also stop ongoing updates and support for Adobe Shockwave ... on March 14^th after the last release of the product."

Doesn't make much sense to go there. At least technically speaking. I used to love Director and Shockwave but stopped back in 2007 to create anything with it and for it. Again, technically speaking, I consider Animate CC in connection with HTML5-Canvas and CreateJS by Grant Skinner as a way forward.

But then technical solutions are not everything. They are only a vehicle for content. What is it you want to say (or sell) on your page brought back to life? That's the question you should answer to yourself and others, like us in this forum, first.

[Sergio44]

ahahah...tks to all of you guys...I did not expected such a reaction...but here is my answer..

I know perfectly well that I will never be able to revive my old site from the oblivion of the net...and this just because the wayback machine is just a huge repository of all stuff and even if they would have some Yotta Byte of memory...they will never be able to keep up with the steady upgrade of all s/w being continously developed...hence, let's the dead sleep in peace in the cemetery of IT

I was just dreaming about a possible Schockwave Emulator, but I understand that this will have no value at all....just like a Marcony radio and its historic value...

Keep pushing for a better future!

Tks to all

Sergio

[kdmemory · Accepted solution]

Grazie mille Sergio, for your wise words and Salute to Guglielmo Marconi. I'm a radio fan and didn't know about him and his role. I looked him up on Wikipedia and learned something new (to me).

Grazie again

klaus

[Sergio44]

tks Klaus....you gotta be very young...or, for sure...I am very old....Marconi, as Tesla...spent his live to make the world a better place...now you must go on trying making it even better...

you might take a look to my site.... www.blockchain4change.com ....

Sergio