Steve Jobs killed it just as I had learned all about AS3, so that was a bit of a bummer. But in the end it was the right thing to do. The company I worked for

Steve Jobs killed it just as I had learned all about AS3, so that was a bit of a bummer. But in the end it was the right thing to do. The company I worked for at the time excelled in creating awful 20mb non-indexable monstrosities, complete with auto playing music and all kinds of other sins. We mutilated the most basic design patterns when the client or bosses thought it would look interesting and even cut a shady deal with a popular meme site to "make it go viral" at one point in time, which it obviously didn't. Shame about all the brilliant Newgrounds stuff though. I'm not talking about the actual content, I just mean I've never seen such a concentrated outpoor of interactive creativity since then. It felt like there was something amazingly smart, creative or funny to discover every day back then.