I started working with flash when version 2 came out, had mostly been doing graphics and html-scripting before that. When Flash 4 came out in 1999(I think?), I was studying Multimedia at a University, and that´s when I started to learn actionscript. Have been doing it ever since.
That later got me a job at a rather succesful company called Paregos, in the north of Sweden. I worked there for almost 2 years as a flashprogrammer. Finally I got fed up with the web-industry and quit my job, sublet my appartment and moved.
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