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> HTML websites from early 2000s run the same now as they did 20 years ago. Well, apart from the tens of thousands of flash games and videos that are being kil

• liability 7y ago
  There is still gnash I guess, but I've not used that in many years. It's a shame Adobe didn't open source flash when they EOL'd it.
• mr-ron 7y ago
  You can still install flash right? So the flash experiences aren't getting lost necessarily. Lots of Shockwave Era stuff getting lost though I agree. Also flash games that require a server backend
  • Dayshine 7y ago
    Both Chromium and Firefox will be removing it in 2020. Once it has been removed, legacy websites hosting flash media won't really be able to fund themselves, so I imagine in the absence of a large archiving programme, we'll just lose it all.
• flixic 7y ago
  The reason why I added HTML qualifier. Closed source tech cannot be trusted to be maintained. JS/HTML can.