Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia and was maintained by them until the company was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems.
In October 1996, The project began when Macromedia decided to create a new web page editing tool. Kevin Lynch led the effort and spent months assembling a small team and talking with web designers about the challenges they faced building websites with the tools available at that time. Based on this insight, Kevin wrote a document called the "19 Dreams," a collection of stories about what an ideal web editing tool would do. These dreams served as the vision for the tool, and the project was subsequently codenamed "Dreamweaver."
Just over a year later, Dreamweaver 1.0 was released.