text: Adobe Flash ( formerly SmartSketch FutureSplash , FutureSplash Animator and Macromedia Flash ) is a multimedia platform used to add animation , video , and interactivity to web pages .
simplified: Flash was created by FutureSplash ( a multimedia company ) in 1995 . Then it was called `` FutureSplash Animator '' ( this was in fact Flash 1.0 ) .