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people that romanticize Flash are selectively remembering the cool uses such as Newgrounds and Homestar Runner. They are forgetting Flash ads, which were stuffe
by deckard1 4y ago
people that romanticize Flash are selectively remembering the cool uses such as Newgrounds and Homestar Runner. They are forgetting Flash ads, which were stuffed on a page to the point they would crash your browser. Or the constant fun of hunt-the-talking-banner. You could always tell when you landed on one of these pages by how fast your CPU fans started spinning. If your PC sounds like a jet engine, you're on a heavy Flash site and should close your browser ASAP.
- pjmlp 4y agoNow they get ads using WebAssembly and WebGL instead, what an improvement!
- egfx 4y agoIt’s not just about AlbinoBlacksheep and NewGrounds. Flash was the most consequential technology on the web’s frontend prior to and even after html5. It was enabled on a staggering 98% of web browsers. So much so it was basically synonymous with web browsing. You can trace the trail of flash to the invention and adoption of social media. There would be no MySpace, no YouTube and Meebo. The internet would have had a completely different story.
- YbW4PaUX7AjenKB 4y agoTo be fair, now those ads are JS and do the same thing.
- rchaud 4y agoBlaming Flash for talking ads of the mid-2000s is like blaming the cement on which a toll booth was erected. Flash is dead. Autoplaying ads still exist.
- bmacho 4y ago> If your PC sounds like a jet engine, you're on a heavy Flash site and should close your browser ASAP. There is a duolingo page that manages to kill my computer to death if I am not fast enough to close it. (Fortunately I only get it ~once a week.) Flash was easily blockable, but javascript, especially something that is compiled to javascript is much harder to catch.