Macromedia Director, multimedia authoring software from the late 1980s. Artists used it for CD-ROMs and early interactive works, and its Shockwave player brought them to the web.
I managed to try to pull her into everything, because if it wasn't for what she was doing in Director at the time, it would have not impacted me in such a profound way.
Joshua Davis, 1990s Net Art: Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Draves