I may have fallen victim of an April fools prank, but the authors apparently did their homework, if Wikipedia is correct!
"In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a fully-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro.[3] Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way.[4]
During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.[3] While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing program code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.[5]"
So about 200 copies of Photoshop was shipped in 1988, and Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was shipped in 1990.
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Only if 1st quarter 1990 was part of the late 1980’s.
BTW, that splash screen is totally bogus, you’ll find that a number of people listed on it haven’t worked for Adobe in awhile.
April Fools day isn’t till Friday...
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