Flash was incredible. Not just for the animation and games, but also for the audio and video streaming from a server to you, or from your mic/cam to a server, o

Flash was incredible. Not just for the animation and games, but also for the audio and video streaming from a server to you, or from your mic/cam to a server, or between you and other users via P2P, all of that live and with the ability to embed arbitrary metadata as cue points at specific times in the stream. The feature set and creativity it unlocked were out of this world.