Why AIR is called AIR? my crazy idea

Yesterday morning when I came back from an AS3 course in Venice, when I was in my car (it was too hot!), I started to think why AIR was called AIR (I know I’m totally crazy!).
So, feel free to follow me in this mind trip:

1. There aren’t any kind of Adobe software where in own name there is “Adobe” word, in fact we talk about Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR, but if you read in long version Adobe AIR you’ll read Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtime… bad sound!

2. AIR is a technology that allow you to bring your web contents and put on user’s desktop to create an “offline software”.
In 1996 Macromedia published a whitepaper where, for the first time, they talked about RIA (Rich Internet Application), so a kind of online software.

So AIR is the opposite of a RIA (one works online the other one mainly offline) and if you reverse the word R I A, you can find A I R!!!

I think that, after called this technology AIR, they think about the real acronym and marketing strategy.

I know, I’m crazy… but it’s funny… isn’t it?! 😀

Published by

luca mezzalira

Being associated with the industry since 2004, I have lent my expertise predominantly in the solution architecture field. I have gained accolades for revolutionising the scalability of frontend architectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows, to delivering quality in products. My colleagues know me as an excellent communicator who believes in using an interactive approach for understanding and solving problems of varied scopes. I helped DAZN becoming a global streaming platform in just 5 years, now as Principal Architect at AWS, I'm helping our customers in the media and entertainment space to deliver cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions. Moreover, I'm sharing with the community the best practices to develop cloud-native architectures solving technical and organizational challenges. My core industry knowledge has been instrumental in resolving complex architectural and integration challenges. Working within the scopes of a plethora of technical roles such as tech lead, solutions architect and CTO, I have developed a precise understanding of various technicalities which has helped me in maximizing value of my company and products in my current leadership roles. View all posts by luca mezzalira

6 thoughts on “Why AIR is called AIR? my crazy idea”

I totally agree with you Luca, so am I crazy as you? We need a rest!

Do you think you could set smaller fonts on this blog?

@Doug is it better right now!? 😉 thank you for your suggestion

less internet, more cabernet! 😀

You need a bit of rest man…
but don’t take a RESTful web service 😛

i read about that it is fact: air comes from ria.
but i can’t remember the source.
i found the following adress for more ideas: http://www.acronymgeek.com/AIR 😉
greetings from germany.
jens

Share this:

Like this:

Published by

luca mezzalira

6 thoughts on “Why AIR is called AIR? my crazy idea”

Leave a Reply Cancel reply