Ah, i found the original product that predates or at the least is at the same time as JS, it was called FutureSplash Animator (1993) https://weekly-geekly.github.io/articles/148212/index.html This was all owned by Macromedia at the time. Macromedia had Freehand (from Altsys), and Fontographer, and some other great products. Adobe bought all of these firms and unfortunately these tool pioneers are ignored.

I don't think ActionScript really took off until Flash 5 or 6.