Right on the money. These were popular and mixed visual metaphors (a drawing program in Flashs case) with programming. Of course many things exist today, but

Right on the money. These were popular and mixed visual metaphors (a drawing program in Flashs case) with programming. Of course many things exist today, but they are all niche. Flash was "art first" and it showed in how creative many of the things created were. Today websites are primarily created by programmers and everything is all the more boring for it.