The final blow came in . In February of that year, Adobe announced that the Shockwave Player, including the Windows version, would be discontinued. On April 9, 2019 , Adobe officially put the entire Shockwave product line to rest. The final software update was released on March 15, 2019 , and by October 2019, the plugin was no longer available for download from Adobe's official website. In a frank explanation, Adobe stated that with the rise of mobile devices and modern technologies like HTML5 Canvas and WebGL, the usage of Shockwave had simply declined.
The —officially known as Adobe Shockwave Player (and formerly Macromedia Shockwave Player )—was a pioneering web browser extension that powered the internet's first wave of interactive multimedia, 3D browser games, and complex web applications. Released by Macromedia in 1995 and later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005 , the plugin stood as the bedrock of early internet entertainment for over two decades. shockwave plugin
Before its discontinuation, you could install Shockwave through the following steps: The final blow came in